British Report: Russia is rebuilding capacities to destabilise Europe, Kosovo is mentioned

Russia is rebuilding capacity to destabilise European states and expand influence in the Middle East and Africa, thus generating a strategic threat to NATO and its members, who are focused on war in Ukraine, assess a United Kingdom-based institute.

Researchers of the Royal United Services Institute. [ RUSSIA, they have argued that Western nations must do more to fight Moscow and its tactics of an unconventional war if they want to succeed in defeating Russia in Ukraine.

As the war in Ukraine continues, Russia has an interest to create crisis beyond”, authors Jack Watling, Olexand V said. Danylyuk and Nick Reynolds, also mentioning the Balkans as the region now known for performing these evil acts.

“Russia has interest even in destabilising Ukraine's partners, and with the delivery of elections across Europe, there are numerous opportunities to increase divisions”, the authors have said.

The 35-page report from this institute, founded in 1831, was published on February 20th, just days before Russia's second launch anniversary of the war in Ukraine.

Since Russian efforts to destabilise countries like Moldova have failed, mainly for the mass expulsion of Kremlin operatives, the Russian Army is strengthening its capacity to launch nonconventional attacks, it is said in the report.

Using documents obtained by Russian secret services and interviews with officials in Ukraine and in some European states, the report points to Russian Narrativa to expand the impact beyond the conflict in Ukraine.

Why is Kosovo mentioned in the report?

Among other things, the report also mentions how the extent of influence is done, as well as through various charitable associations, and among these is the Ahmat Cadyrov Foundation, which seeks to popularise Cadyrov as a religious figure.

The European Islamic Forum does similar work.

The “Organisation is particularly active in the Balkans, where it has established connections with authoritarian Muslim representatives (not only religious, but political figures) in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, northern Macedonia, Croatia, Greece and Romania”.

In July 2021, a delegation from the European Muslim Forum (EMF) led by its chairman, Abdul-Wahed Niizov, has been visiting the Islamic Community of Kosovo and the Faculty of Islamic Sciences.

The delegation of the European Muslim Forum, hosted by mufti Naim Ternava, chairman of the Islamic Community of Kosovo and his associates, but they had not considered during what this forum was presented and who was its leader, Abdul-Wahed Niyazov.

The European Muslim Forum is an organisation that has headquarters in Brussels, and was established in October 2018.

Some of the goals of this forum, mentioned on its website, are: integration of Muslim immigrants into European society, assistance in the construction and development of mosques and Islamic cultural centres in European countries, organisation of activities aimed at popularising European cultural heritage, development of educational projects on the Internet to reach a wider audience of young Muslims, development of the Living Industry in European countries, etc.

The forum's chairman, Niyazov, also heads the Moscow Islamic Cultural Centre, a public department of the official Russian mufti council and also an organ linked to the Kremlin.

In the Russian Federation, Niyazov is considered a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who, from 1999 until 2003, has been the representative of Putin's party in Russian Doom. / REL