Moscow: Russia’s President Vladamir Putin has ordered the country’s top intelligence agency to step up its action to counter efforts to destabilize Russia. Putin has described these as Western efforts. In a meeting of top officials of the Federal Security Service (FSB) on Wednesday, Putin referred to “an alleged strategy to control Russia” and alleged that it “derailed, slowed down our development journey”, Creating problems on our borders, inciting internal instability and weakening the values that unite Russian society ”. The Russian president said that his motive for the activities of foreign forces is to “weaken Russia and keep it under external control”.
Although he did not openly mention who these foreign forces are. Police also praised the agency’s efforts to disrupt the activities of foreign spies, under which the agency traced 72 foreign intelligence officers and their 423 informants.
He ordered the FSB to step up the protection of the country’s latest military technologies, saying, “You all know we have a lot to protect.” The FSB was also ordered to step up its anti-terrorist efforts. The US and its NATO allies have rejected many claims made by the Kremlin in the past that it said they want to weaken Russia.
