Putin: Tougher Measures Urged to Counter ’Color Revolutions’, Extremism

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said that forces willing to reshape the world often used extremism as a tool in so-called "color revolutions" and urged law enforcement to use international experience to fight such tendencies in Russia, he told the Security Council on Thursday.

Putin told the Security Council on Thursday that, "In the modern world, extremism is used as a geopolitical tool for redistribution of spheres of interest. We can see the tragic consequences of the wave of the so-called color revolutions, the shock experienced by people in the countries that had went through the irresponsible experiments of hidden, or sometimes brute and direct interference with their lives."

"This is a lesson and a warning for us," Putin said. "We will do everything to never let this take place in Russia."

Putin also noted in his speech that everyone advocating the freedom of assembly and expression must remember about the responsibility that comes together with these rights.

"People should understand that instigating conflict between people of different ethnic and religious background, the promotion of nationalist ideology, mass violations of public order and calls for forceful overthrow of the existing regime are all ... direct manifestations of extremism," he told top security officials. He noted that everyone should remember about the destructive consequences of such actions as well as about the fact that those involved would have to answer for them.

Putin added that senior regional officials would have to personally answer for shortcomings in the fight against extremism.

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