# Counter C00162: Unravel/target the Potemkin villages

* **Summary**: Kremlin’s narrative spin extends through constellations of “civil society” organizations, political parties, churches, and other actors. Moscow leverages think tanks, human rights groups, election observers, Eurasianist integration groups, and orthodox groups. A collection of Russian civil society organizations, such as the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation, together receive at least US$100 million per year, in addition to government-organized nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), at least 150 of which are funded by Russian presidential grants totaling US$70 million per year.

* **Playbooks**: 

* **Metatechnique**: M013 - targeting

* **Resources needed:** 

* **Belongs to tactic stage**: TA15


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| Counters these Tactics |
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| Counters these Techniques |
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| [T0010 Cultivate ignorant agents](../generated_pages/techniques/T0010.md) |
| [T0022 Leverage Conspiracy Theory Narratives](../generated_pages/techniques/T0022.md) |
| [T0002 Facilitate State Propaganda](../generated_pages/techniques/T0002.md) |
| [T0003 Leverage Existing Narratives](../generated_pages/techniques/T0003.md) |
| [T0004 Develop Competing Narratives](../generated_pages/techniques/T0004.md) |



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