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West seeks to destabilize global order, Russia’s intelligence chief says

"Euro-Atlantic elites are trying to convince the rest of the world that the only alternative to Western power is chaos, and for this purpose, they deliberately seek destabilization in key regions of the planet," Sergey Naryshkin said
Head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin Sergey Bulkin/TASS
Head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin
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MOSCOW, November 26. /TASS/. The West is unwilling to accept the loss of its past power and is deliberately undermining the situation in key regions of the world, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin, said.

"Euro-Atlantic elites <…> stubbornly refuse to accept the loss of their former dominance. They are trying to convince the rest of the world that the only alternative to Western power is chaos, and for this purpose, they deliberately seek destabilization in key regions of the planet," he said, speaking at the 20th meeting of the heads of security and intelligence agencies of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries.

The SVR chief stated that the West operates "like criminal authorities, following the logic of 'you die today, I die tomorrow.'" He noted, however, that "the revolutionary aspect of the current situation is Washington and its allies' decreasing ability to execute their destructive plans." Naryshkin added that "the main challenge they face is the innovative efforts of responsible regional powers striving to independently ensure peace and security for their nations."

Unlike the West, which "sees everywhere either itself or an object of suppression, conquest, and even robbery," Russia "proceeds from the possibility and even necessity of synergy of states and civilizations," Naryshkin stressed. "We are at the beginning of the history of coexistence of civilizations and the transformation of the world order," he added. "Just as young wine bursts old bellows, so multipolarity does not fit into Washington's global system of domination and subordination based on the dollar and the arbitrary actions of one state," Naryshkin concluded.