NOVO-OGARYOVO, October 30. /TASS/. Attempts are being made to destabilize and divide Russian society from outside, including with the use of sophisticate technologies, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday at a meeting on the situation in Dagestan.

"At a recent meeting with leaders of religious associations, I pointed to the attempts to use the dramatic situation in the Middle East, other regional conflicts against our country, against Russia to destabilize and split our multiethnic and multi-religious society. We see that various tools are used for that, lies, provocations, sophisticated technologies of psychological and information aggression," he said.