DISARMframeworks/generated_pages/counters/C00162.md

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

Actor types	Sectors

Counters these Tactics

Counters these Techniques
T0010 Cultivate ignorant agents
T0022 Leverage Conspiracy Theory Narratives
T0002 Facilitate State Propaganda
T0003 Leverage Existing Narratives
T0004 Develop Competing Narratives

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