8 minutes agoUS cares for Kosovo: Over 61m euros was spent just to combat Russian influence
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Millions of dollars for funding civil society organisations and other subjects for rule of law, media, cyber organisations and other programs that strengthen institutions and democratic processes and oppose Russian influence and aggression are spent by the United States, scattered across different parts of the world. Department inspector [...]
The U.S. State Department inspector published the report on the “Russian Influence Fight Fund”, under which the US state spent $621,555,857m.
This money has gone to Central, Eastern European, Balkan, and four others of the so-called Visegrad countries or V4 (Hungary, Poland, Czechia and Slovakia)
This money was spent on the timeline between 2017 and 2022.
Among these countries, Moldova took the largest amount as a single one, totaling $198,172,456, followed by Bosnia and Herzegovina with 80,846,580 dollars, North Macedonia 67,472,572 and then Romania $6,146,297.
In Kosovo 61,157,070m U.S. dollars were spent to combat Russian influence, then $555,567,000m was dropped in Serbia, Montenegro, 50,505 and Albania 39,020,431m US dollars.
CRIF assistance is offered to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and European Union member states, as well as countries seeking membership in those organisations, including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine.
