{"id":25950,"date":"2021-02-24T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/02\/24\/putin-warns-of-unnamed-foreign-efforts-to-destabilize-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:31:15","slug":"putin-warns-of-unnamed-foreign-efforts-to-destabilize-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/flashpoints\/2021\/02\/24\/putin-warns-of-unnamed-foreign-efforts-to-destabilize-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin warns of unnamed foreign efforts to destabilize Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MOSCOW \u2014 Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his nation\u2019s top counterintelligence agency Wednesday to redouble its efforts to address what he described as Western attempts to destabilize Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at a meeting of top officials of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, the main KGB successor agency, Putin pointed at the \u201cso-called policy of containment of Russia,\u201d charging that it includes efforts to \u201cderail our development, slow it down, create problems alongside our borders, provoke internal instability and undermine the values that unite the Russian society.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian president added that those activities by foreign powers, which he didn\u2019t name, are aimed at \u201cweakening Russia and putting it under outside control.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States and its NATO allies <\/a>have rejected similar previous claims by the Kremlin<\/a> that they were seeking to undermine Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\t