ASTANA, February 12. /TASS/. Many countries are too slow to recognize the destructive role of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergei Shoigu told reporters.
"We have long understood the true nature of this organization, its objectives, and the intentions it pursues in various countries," he said. "Realizing this, we banned the activities of this organization back in 2012."
Shoigu expressed regret that "understanding of the nature of this organization arrives very late for many countries, when irreversible events have already occurred" and caused significant damage.
He said that USAID "has all the facets of the rainbow: both in the sense of LGBT (the movement is recognized in Russia as extremist and banned - TASS), and in the sense of color revolutions," and compared it to the "tip of a large iceberg", beneath which various non-profit, non-governmental and pseudo-humanitarian organizations such as the "White Helmets" are hiding.