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Russia News Review Sources Updated on 3.13.14  »   Russia Wields Aid and Ideology Against West to Fight Sanctions  08/06/15 00:00 from  NYT > Russia Moscow is leveraging its economic power, financing European political parties and movements, and spreading alternative accounts of the conflict. Russia Wields Aid and Ideology Against West to Fight Sanctions Sunday June 7 th , 2015  at  10:37 PM 1 Share WASHINGTON — The war in  Ukraine  that has pitted  Russia  against the West is being waged not just with tanks, artillery and troops. Increasingly, Moscow has brought to bear different kinds of weapons, according to American and European officials: money, ideology and disinformation. Even as the Obama administration and its European allies try to counter Russia’s military intervention across its border, they have found themselves struggling at home against what they see as a concerted drive by Moscow to leverage its economic power, finance E