The West, as during the Troubles, still wants to weaken Russia's sovereignty by influencing its economy, politics and public consciousness, Dmitry Caistro said in an author's column for the Vesti information system. According to him, turmoil and chaos are what the West would like to see permanently in the vastness of Russia and its historical territories. "Western geopolitical centers are again betting on the fragmentation of Russian society, provoking internal conflicts. They have one goal - to plunge Russia into a new period of trouble, deprive it of its subjectivity, and then divide it into parts to digest them together."