Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of Russia’s Security Council on Friday that “criminals” are stepping up efforts to destabilize Russia and called on members of his cabinet to prevent this “under no circumstances”, the official TASS news agency reported.

Vladimir PutinPhoto: Pavlo Golovkin / AP / Profimedia

“Today we will consider these issues related to ensuring Russia’s security, in this case we are talking about internal political security,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the beginning of the meeting of the RB, which took place via video conference, writes News.ro.

He called relations between the 190 ethnic groups in the Russian Federation “extremely important” in the context of Moscow’s March outlawing of the Post-Russia Free Peoples Forum, an organization founded by opposition activists who advocate independence for many ethnic groups. groups in Russia.

Putin has repeatedly called on Russia to unite in the face of “existential threats” from the West, but has occasionally faced hostility from ethnic groups that feel particularly targeted by Moscow’s mobilization campaign.

“We have to do everything we can so that they don’t”

The Russian authorities should not allow the disruption of the country’s internal political security in the face of intensified efforts by ill-wishers to “destabilize the situation inside the Russian Federation,” Putin said. “And we must do everything to prevent them from doing so, under any circumstances,” Putin stressed to the members of his security cabinet.

Then Putin invited the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Oleksandr Bortnikov and the Minister of Internal Affairs Volodymyr Kolokoltsev to express their opinions, but the discussion is not public.

The meeting was attended by President of the Federation Council (the upper house of the Russian Parliament) Valentina Matvienko, President of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, Head of the Presidential Administration Anton Vaino, Vice President of the Russian Federation. Security Council Dmytro Medvedev, Director of the FSB Oleksandr Bortnikov, Secretary of the Security Council Mykola Patrusev, Minister of Defense Serhii Shoigu, Minister of Internal Affairs Volodymyr Kolokoltsev, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Serhii Naryshkin.

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