Russia Spy Chief: World Turning Away from ’So-Called Western Values’

By Staff, Agencies

Russia’s top intelligence official has warned that global rejection of so-called Western values is intensifying, as Western governments attempt to reshape their influence operations through new, subtler strategies.

The remarks come amid growing discontent with liberal Western agendas across the Global South and Eurasia.

Sergey Naryshkin, Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), said Thursday that countries around the world are increasingly repulsed by “so-called Western values.”

Addressing the CIS Council of Heads of Security Agencies and Special Services in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Naryshkin argued that Western capitals, particularly in the EU and the UK, are adjusting their political tools to maintain influence abroad.

"As repulsion with the so-called Western values is growing across the globe, officials in the leading EU capitals and London are adjusting their tools to influence the social and political life in the countries they are focused on," he stated.

"The plan is to promote the pro-Western information agenda through seemingly neutral external programs of social and humanitarian nature."

The SVR chief suggested that these efforts are designed to appear apolitical but are, in fact, aimed at embedding Western ideological frameworks in foreign societies through soft power programs.