Putin: there are foreign efforts to destabilize Russia

MOSCOW, Feb. 25 (YPA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is facing containment policies and campaigns of skepticism aimed at undermining its values and disrupting its development.

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 the 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.”

Putin stressed that the Russian Federation command has information about preparing provocations against Russia related to the fight against the Coronavirus aimed at questioning its successes.

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