MOSCOW, December 28. /TASS/. Recruiting people to participate in unauthorized protest rallies is one of the ways seeking to destabilize Russia and spread extremism, Russia's new strategy on counteracting extremism reads.
"One of the main methods for destabilizing the political and socio-economic situation in Russia is increasingly engaging representatives from various population segments to participate in unauthorized public events (including protest rallies) which then are deliberately transformed into mass disturbances," the presidential decree, published on the official legal information web portal, said.
It is specified that to this end, various ways of manipulating public opinion and spreading unreliable information are being increasingly used. This includes discrediting the Russian Armed Forces or the authority of government agencies. Such methods facilitate intensified radical and extremist attitudes in Russian society.