MOSCOW, November 26. /TASS/. Flirting with the West risks posing a threat to national sovereignty, Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov said, reporting an increase in subversive activity by Western special services in the post-Soviet space.
"As the North Atlantic Alliance continues to implement its aggressive policies in the post-Soviet space, subversive activities by Western special services, diplomatic missions, as well as NGOs and media controlled by them, have intensified," the FSB head told a meeting of senior security officers and intelligence chiefs from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Moscow.
Bortnikov pointed to the recent efforts by the West to literally "undermine" the outcome of a presidential election in Moldova and attempts to stage yet another "color revolution," this time in Georgia.
"All this shows that flirting with the West is associated with major security risks that could develop into a full-fledged threat to national security and the constitutional order with any deviation from the Euro-Atlantic ideals," he emphasized.
Among other things, intensified attempts by Westerners to ignite nationalist sentiments and xenophobia in CIS countries raise concern, Bortnikov said. "By this, groundwork is being laid for drawing a wedge between our peoples and imposing extremist and terrorist ideas on them," he warned.