Anton Kobyakov, an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, has made a controversial statement about the former Soviet Union. According to him, the USSR still exists legally because the procedure for dissolving the union has not yet been fully constitutionally implemented.

Russia wants to use Crimean mosques as propaganda centers in order to attract local Muslims to the Russian armed forces.

Kazakhstan has banned Russian TV presenter and Russian propagandist Tina Kandelaki from entering the country. Kandelaki previously wrote that the state level of Kazakhstan is slowly but surely displacing the Russian language.