Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is accusing the “collective West” of causing trouble in some countries.
Lavrov said that the West is trying to cause internal conflicts and even spark a “color revolution” in Georgia. He made these comments at a meeting with other security officials from former Soviet states.
The Russian government’s news agency, TASS, quoted Lavrov as saying: “The collective West provokes internal conflicts, hotbeds of tension, does not disdain various dirty geopolitical technologies – from the organization of large-scale information wars to the direct unleashing of color revolutions, as they are now trying to do in Georgia.”
Lavrov also claimed that the West is using civil society groups to try and destabilize governments in countries that were part of the Soviet Union. He said that this was a way for the West to implement its own plans.
Another Russian official, Sergey Naryshkin, head of Russia‘s Foreign Intelligence Service, said that Georgia has been targeted by another attempt at a “color revolution”. He said that this was similar to previous attempts in Belarus and Kazakhstan.
The head of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, also spoke out against the West. He claimed that Western secret services were trying to carry out a new color revolution in Georgia and influence the outcome of presidential elections in Moldova.
All this comes amid a political crisis in Georgia after disputed parliamentary elections on October 26. The opposition and some observers say that there was widespread rigging, while the ruling party says that the West is interfering.
The accusations from Russian officials are not new, but they come at a time when tensions between Russia and Western countries are already high.
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