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Russian Military Intelligence Expects Struggle For Resources To Intensify

Image of Oil WellMoscow, 1 November: The Main Intelligence Directorate (Russian acronym GRU) of the Russian General Staff is issuing a warning about the emergence in the world of new challenges and threats to do with struggle for natural resources, proliferation of nuclear technologies and man-triggered disasters, the head of the GRU, Col-Gen Aleksandr Shlyakhturov, told RIA Novosti news agency on Tuesday (1 November). The military intelligence service's area of particular interest is the disclosure of threats to Russia's national interests and military security, the general said. "An increase in factors of instability and uncertainty can now be seen. The conflict potential in many regions is growing. The influence of economic problems on politics is noticeable. New challenges and threats to do with struggle for natural resources, proliferation of nuclear technologies, man-triggered disasters have emerged," Shlyakhturov said.

In this connection he noted one of the most important tasks of the military intelligence service - the obtaining of information in the military, military-political, military-technical, military-economic and ecological areas. "It should not only be obtained, but also analysed to know what to report to the country's highest state and military leadership," the general noted.

According to Shlyakhturov, it is first of all regions from which threats to Russia's national interests and military security come or could come that are in the field of vision of the military intelligence service.

"They comprise the so-called hot spots where terrorist and extremist groups are active, regions of crisis situations which affect international stability and security, as well as sources and possible routes of illegal proliferation of nuclear materials and components of weapons of mass destruction," the general said.

Interest in this or that region depends on the Russian Federation's state priorities.

"Therefore, there is redistribution of intelligence aims in various regions from time to time," the agency's source added.

 

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