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The program was dedicated tothe 95th anniversary ofthe Directorate S ("illegal" intelligence service) ofthe Foreign Intelligence Service ofthe Russian Federation (SVR).

The interview was conducted byVesti v Subbotu anchor Sergei Brilev. The voice, face and name ofthe former agent were changed due tosecurity reasons.

"Pavel Andreyevich [the agent's alias] says that the NATO documents obtained byhim signaled that the dissolution ofthe USSR was only the first stage," Brilev noted.

"And then [NATO planned] tocreate the Russian North-Volga Republic and then the Middle Volga Republic, and reduce the Russian state tothe level and size ofthe Moscow principality," the intelligence veteran specified.

"We have these documents, they are now inthe archive ofour [Russian intelligence] service," the former agent stressed.

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U.S. navy marines take a break during annual recurring multinational, maritime-focused NATO exercise BALTOPS 2017, near Ventspils, Latvia, June 6, 2017

The idea ofthe partition ofRussia is not new.

In his book The Grand Chessboard published six years afterthe collapse ofthe USSR, a former US national security adviser and geostrategist, Zbigniew Brzezinski, insisted that "a more decentralized Russia would be less susceptible toimperial mobilization."

"A loosely confederated Russia composed ofa European Russia, a Siberian Republic, and a Far Eastern Republic would find it easier tocultivate closer economic regulations withEurope, withthe new states ofCentral Asia, and with [East Asia], which would thereby accelerate Russia's own development," the geostrategist claimed.

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Interestingly enough, beforeBrzezinski, the idea tosever Russia alongthe Ural Mountains thus dividing it into "European" and "Asian" (Siberia and the Far East) parts, was mulled overby Nazi Germany and its allies.

In December 1941, half a year afterNazi Germany invaded the USSR, the Empire ofJapan offered Adolf Hitler and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini todivide Eurasia intotwo spheres ofinterest alongthe 70th meridian east longitude. As observers noted, Hitler didn't plan toseize much ofSoviet territory east ofthe Ural Mountains.

More thana decade beforethe Axis powers ofGermany, Italy and Japan considered the partitioning ofRussia, the territory ofthe former Russian Empire was subjected toAllied intervention a multinational military expedition launched duringthe Russian Civil War of1918 bymajor European powers which backed the anti-Bolshevik White Guard.

The United States, Canada, Japan and China took part inthe intervention campaign alongwith European powers occupying Russia's northwestern regions, Crimea, Bessarabia, Siberia and the Far East. However, their efforts were thwarted bydivided objectives, a lack ofdomestic support, war-weariness largely caused byWorld War I and the military successes ofthe Red Army.

As history shows, each time Russia faced severe domestic and geopolitical challenges it ran the risk offalling prey tothe global power game.

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