Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the “collective West” of “provoking internal conflicts and trying to unleash a color revolution in Georgia” while speaking at the 20th meeting of the heads of security and intelligence services of the CIS member states.
He said, as quoted by the Russian state-controlled TASS news agency: “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 alleged that the West is actively using an “extensive network” of civil society organizations “to destabilize the internal political situation in the states of the global South and the global East”. He added that “it has come to the point that the West is using the resources of extremist forces to implement its destructive geopolitical plan, including in the CIS region.”
At the same meeting the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergey Naryshkin, said that the Georgian authorities “have faced another attempt at a color revolution, that is, a coup d’état’,” adding that he hopes that “this attempt by the West will fail.”
