article_snippet: At the same time the group's research director Asim Qureshi pointed to the renewed threat to international order posed by Russia after years of re-engagement with the West following the end of the Cold War. '
article_snippet: our are now faced with a Russian leader bent not on joining the international rules-based system which keeps the peace between nations, but on subverting it,' the group's research director Asim Qureshi said. '
article_snippet: President (Vladimir) Putin's actions - illegally annexing Crimea and now using Russian troops to destabilise eastern Ukraine - fundamentally undermine the security of sovereign nations in Eastern Europe.' )
article_snippet: Putin said that the 'clandestine nature' of the threats- from weapons systems developed in secret to covert plotting by terrorists - underlined the need for Britain to maintain a 'highly effective, secret capability' to identify, monitor and act against ) Putin's actions - illegally annexing Crimea and now using Russian troops to destabilise eastern Ukraine - fundamentally undermine the security of sovereign nations in Eastern Europe.'. '