Speaking before Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) board on February 24, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin charged that the West continues to use “containment” to undermine and prevent Russia from developing.
“We are up against the so-called policy of containing Russia. This is not about competition, which is a natural thing for international relations. This is about a consistent and quite aggressive policy aimed at disrupting our development, slowing it down, creating problems along the outer perimeter, triggering domestic instability, undermining the values that unite Russian society, and ultimately to weaken Russia and put it under external control, just the way we are witnessing it transpire in some countries in the post-Soviet space,” the president stressed.
