Naryshkin Accused Western Intelligence Services Of Trying To Deprive Russia Of Influence On CIS Countries

The head of the Russian SVR said that the goal of the West's intelligence services is to "hold back the development" of the CIS.

The West has stepped up efforts to destabilize the Commonwealth of Independent States, Director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin has said. "Recently we have been observing a trend of attempts by a number of Western countries, primarily European ones, to provoke disintegration processes within the CIS," he told TASS. According to Naryshkin, "instruments of large-scale economic aggression" and "disinformation campaigns" are used to realize these plans. In addition, active destructive activities are being carried out in cyberspace. The head of the SVR stressed that the goal of "regimes and intelligence services of the West" is to "hold back the development" of the CIS "as an independent, autonomous center of power."

On October 10, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin said that it is important for the former Soviet republics, now part of the CIS, "not to separate far from each other" and to maintain the feeling that they have "many things in common" with Russia. He said the Commonwealth has "competitive advantages" in the form of common logistics, "cooperation in industry" and a "common cultural code" that "cannot be lost." "No matter how big the differences in the culture of the various peoples of the former Soviet Union may be, there was still a common moral and ethical code of the Soviet man... And preserving everything that was inherited from the Soviet Union is the task the CIS is called upon to solve," Putin emphasized.

In this connection, he called the support of the Russian language as "the language of interethnic communication" and the preservation of the memory of common history, especially the victory over Nazism, fundamental issues. "This is our common heritage and the pride of all our peoples... But we always need to look for, and constantly, things that will unite us in the future," Putin concluded. The CIS comprises nine states. In addition to Russia, they are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

In June, Russian Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov accused CIS countries of distorting the Soviet past in history textbooks. He emphasized that the description of the period when the republics were part of the USSR "in general has a negative character in relation to Russia." Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev directly called the country's inclusion in the Soviet Union an "occupation".

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