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Putin Warns Intelligence Agency of Western Attempts to Destabilize Russia
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0:53Now PlayingRussia's President Vladimir Putin ordered the nation's top counterintelligence agency Wednesday to redouble its efforts to address what he described as Western attempts to destabilize the country.
Speaking at a meeting of top officials of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, the main KGB successor agency, Putin pointed at the “so-called policy of containment of Russia,” charging that it includes efforts to “derail our development, slow it down, create problems alongside our borders, provoke internal instability and undermine the values that unite Russian society.”
The Russian President added that those activities by foreign powers, which he didn't name, are aimed at “weakening Russia and putting it under outside control.”
Russia's relations with the West have plummeted to post-Cold War lows after Moscow's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea, Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and, most recently, the arrest of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and a sweeping crackdown on protests demanding his release.
Without naming Navalny, Putin assailed those in Russia who allegedly serve foreign interests.
He said it was necessary to draw a line between ''ideological platforms and activities'' which have ''nothing to do with the country's development.''
The Russian president emphasized the need for the FSB to shield the parliamentary elections set for September from any "provocations."
He hailed the agency for disrupting the activities of foreign spies, saying that it unmasked 72 foreign intelligence officers and 423 of their informants.
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