Russian Diplomat Says NGOs Look to Destabilize Post-Soviet Countries
Jose Nino
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During late February, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova declared that Western-funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are bringing instability to post-Soviet countries as part of a broader plot to create a “belt of instability” around Russia.
“Every year, the West allocates billions of dollars and euro to finance NGOs and media in Russia and other post-Soviet countries. In 2020, more than 2,000 NGOs and media outlets operated in the CIS countries on this money. Obviously, you know their agenda,” she proclaimed at the second congress of the International Movement of Russophiles.
“The result of their so-called work is inevitable destabilization of the socio-political and economic situation in these countries, which creates the so-called belt of instability around Russia,” she stated.
She believes that these machinations are designed toward “discrediting the regimes, governments and political forces in countries, which conduct an independent domestic and foreign policy, promoting their own political and moral values without taking into account the level of the development of political institutions, cultural and religious traditions and values in these countries.”
“Financial support is rendered to various extremist, political, and religious organizations,” she continued.
Indeed, the Russian diplomat is right here. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US and its satrapies in NATO have done everything possible to topple countries around Russia’s sphere of influence and replace them with pro-Western regimes.
For decades, this was the standard operating procedure in the post-Soviet space. However, that changed with Russia’s interventions in Ukraine in 2014 and 2022, respectively. Russia will no longer tolerate such encroachments.
As a great power, it will asset itself on the world stage as it sees fit. The quicker the US recognizes this reality, the safer the world will end up becoming.
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