Moscow, June 10: The US Department of State is one of coordinators of destructive activities conducted by the West in relation to Russia, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said.
In an interview with the Argumenty i Fakty newspaper, Patrushev spoke about methods used by the West to destabilize the socio-political situation in Russia.
“The coordinators of destructive activities in Russia are the US Department of State, the US Agency for International Development, the American Council on Foreign Relations, leading US non-governmental organizations – the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the International Republican Institute, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Institute of Modern Russia, the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation) and many others,” the Russian Security Council secretary said.
Patrushev said that “a number of non-governmental and international organizations based mainly in the United States and Western Europe are also widely used to work in Russia by the Americans and their NATO partners.”
He said his Council had information that the West would try to intensify its attempts to destabilize the situation in Russia prior to the upcoming vote on amendments to Russia’s Constitution.
Patrushev said the West was actively using the internet and media outlets it controlled to discredit the Russian leadership, and added that it interfered in Russian elections both on the federal and regional levels.
“Accusations against the current authorities under a far-fetched pretext are the tools of the so-called color revolutions, which the West has started using long ago,” he said.
Patrushev explained that any complaints could become the pretext for launching destructive processes in countries with leaderships unwanted by the West: dispersals of peaceful rallies, the death of a protester or alleged ‘fraud’ during elections.
The Russian Security Council secretary said that in order to counter the West’s attempts to organize a “color revolution” in Russia, it was necessary to strengthen state support of socially oriented NGOs.
(AGENCIES)
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