A council at the State Duma CIS Affairs Committee will be created to prevent "color revolutions" and analyze threats to Russia's interests in the near abroad.
Members of the committee and experts told Kommersant about the planned creation of the council to combat so-called "color-revolutions," later confirmed by CIS Committee head Leonid Slutsky, the paper said Tuesday.
The exact functions and composition of the new organ will be discussed at a meeting of the committee April 12.
"One function will be defending the interests of our country and that of our allies," Committee deputy head Oleg Lebedev said.
An expert with knowledge of the creation of the council said that it would be like a "counter-revolutionary think tank." Experts will be prepared to discuss the role of foreign NGO's as instruments of color revolutions, the role of new technologies in the organization of protests, the influence of the blogoshpere and social networks on the masses, and methods of counteracting revolutionary movements as a whole.