MOSCOW, June 6. /TASS/. The West sees the collapse of the CIS and is breakup into puppet and colonial countries at odds with each other as its long-term aim, the deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council, Rashid Nurgaliyev, said in an interview granted to the government-published daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta, published on Monday.
"The collapse of the CIS, the CSTO, and the EAEU and creation of Ukraine-like puppet and colonial states at odds with each other in the post-Soviet space is Washington's long-term objective," he said.
Nurgaliyev drew attention to the fact that there were "dozens of methods being employed for shaking loose the countries of the post-Soviet space." "The West spends colossal funds on their implementation and spares no effort," he stated.
One of these methods, he went on to say, is support for non-governmental organizations, whose activities, among other things, are aimed at weakening the cultural and economic interaction by the CIS countries. "For example, the Atlantic Council, with assistance from the [Woodrow] Wilson Center, provides financial support for the opposition and anti-Russian experts and political scientists in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine," Nurgaliyev explained.
Thorough preparations
The Russian Security Council’s deputy secretary drew attention to the fact that Washington allocated millions of dollars annually for training opposition-minded public opinion leaders.
He pointed out that the program, ostensibly expected to improve the legal environment, funded by the US Agency for International Development, was aimed at developing laws that would provide for unlimited freedom of action for the opposition in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. "Washington has been thoroughly training opposition-minded journalists in the Central Asian republics since 2002. Media representatives with the most "active citizenship" are lavishly encouraged within the framework of the annual Central Asian Media Festival," he stressed.
In addition, Nurgaliyev continued, there are about a hundred non-government news agencies that have been opened in the neighboring countries in the past decade with US funds. "The embassies of the United States and a number of European countries issue grants and organize for the training of civil servants for the CIS countries. The United States also aims to change school and university education by supporting short-term trips for the best students to the US and by funding new courses on so-called "democracy" and history," he said.