MOSCOW, November 20. /TASS/. The professional skills of the Western ruling class are degrading, but intelligence agencies in those countries don’t employ laymen, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergey Naryshkin said.

"We can see the decay of the bureaucratic elite’s professional skills, while for years, it has posed as the ruling class in the West. <...> Only ignorant people and scoundrels can take part in such a shameless political show. As for Western intelligence agencies, I can assure you that strict skill requirements exclude laymen from access," he pointed out in an interview with National Defense magazine.

The SVR chief emphasized that irrationality had particularly affected leading European countries, where presidents, prime ministers, and chancellors unfailingly served the interests of globalist capital.

"As years go by, we can see these interests drifting further away from national goals, as well as from the population’s well-being and needs. This is why they have to keep explaining to the average European voters that there is no greater happiness than to live in poverty to save the environment, let migrants take away their jobs for the sake of tolerance, and eventually die in Donbass for Ukraine," Naryshkin asserted.