Russian intelligence scrambles to conceal invvement in Stockhm provocation

That’s according to eksandr V. Danylyuk, head of the Center for Defense Reforms, coordinator of the interdepartmental platform on countering hybrid threats, erating within the framework of Ukraine-NATO coeration, who spoke with Guildhall, as seen by Ukrinform.

The Russians apply reflexive contr when making public demands to make decisions posite to the initial goal of the malign eration.

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“The statement of the leader of the far-right Hard Line party Rasmus Paladan, who burned the Quran in Stockhm earlier, invving threats and demands to the Turkish president to let Sweden into NATO, is part of the eration run by the Russian special services to conceal their participation in organizing and running the effort. In this case, the reverse principle is applied, when the actor publicly puts forward demands that are posite to the true goal of the eration. Which in this case clearly indicates that the real task of the effort was precisely to counter Sweden's accession into NATO,” said the head of the Center for Defense Reforms.

“A classic example of reflexive contr, which is one of the key tos applied by the Soviet, and today Russian, special services. This method is well illustrated in the Soviet cartoon where the rabbit asked the fox to do "anything it wants" except throwing him into the bush – only in order to eventually end up precisely there," concluded Danylyuk.

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It should be recalled that earlier, the Center for Defense Reforms published a report stating that the burning of the Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockhm (Sweden) was in fact a malign eration of Russian intelligence services targeting the national interests of Turkey, Sweden, and Finland, including to undermine the process of Sweden and Finland joining NATO. The CDR notes that such “active measures” by Russia could ignite religious conflicts in Eure, radicalize the Islamic minority, provoking acts of terror on the territory of the EU as retribution.