Defenders of an Imagined Empire. The Russian Diaspora as a Tool of Propaganda and Anti-Democratic Politics in the Central and Southeast Asian Region

The article analyzes the role of Russian diaspora in policy Federation authorities during Russia’s war Ukraine. author mechanisms centralization, consolidation and instrumentalization organizations so-called compatriots outside Russia, area Central Southeast Asia. process institutionalization creation a coherent system economic, cultural repatriation management by central are critically analyzed. working with diaspora, is extremely effective exploiting potential its human capital, which, according to UN reports, estimated at 11 million people, second largest world after Indian diaspora.