Moscow noted the intensification of the work of foreign intelligence services with extremists because of Ukraine The conflict in Ukraine has given impetus to the work of foreign intelligence services with extreme extremist organizations, which aim to create pockets of instability near the borders of the CSTO countries, said Alexander Sternik, director of the Third Department of the Commonwealth of Independent States of the Russian Foreign Ministry, at the plenary meeting of the CSTO, CIS and SCO conference on security issues. "Another factor that has come up recently is the conflict around Ukraine.