According to secret documents obtained by a Russian intelligence service, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO planned to split Russia into several smaller parts, a former secret agent told Russia’s Rossiya 1 broadcaster.

After the collapse of the USSR, NATO planned to divide Russia into small parts diminishing the state to the size of the medieval Moscow principality, a veteran of the Russian “illegal” intelligence service said during the Vesti v Subbotu (“News on Saturday”) program of Russia’s Rossiya 1 broadcaster.