The West has long been aimed at fragmenting Russia, Kneissl believes

MOSCOW, October 9 – RIA Novosti. The West has long been aimed at fragmenting Russia in order to gain access to its resources, this time we can talk about Russian arable land and water sources, says the former head of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, head of the G.O.R.K.I center. St. Petersburg State University Karin Kneisl.

“Almost every week there is an assertion from Europe that Russia is too big. There is nothing new in this. Prince Potemkin, Tsar Nicholas II, and the current Russian government have all encountered this long-standing envy. The fragmentation of Russia has been a long-standing Western goal,” Kneissl said in an article for Polity magazine.

According to her, the plan to divide Russia into more than 40 states is being discussed even in the Austrian parliament.