Moscow-Sana
Russian President Vladimir Putin considered that the West failed to anticipate the international developments that would weaken its hegemony.
"The West has fallen into the trap because it has not been able to analyze developments in the world that will weaken its hegemony," RIA Novosti news agency quoted Putin as saying today during his visit to the headquarters of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service on the occasion of the centenary of its founding.
Putin stressed that one of the priorities of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service is strategic forecasting of the development of events and changes on the international scene and receiving timely information about foreign military and geostrategic plans that could threaten Russia.
Putin pointed to the "priority tasks that the state's foreign intelligence should carry out," noting that "it is important to see the general picture of what is happening in the world and act proactively.