MOSCOW, June 30 Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service should not to reduce attention to the security of Russian citizens abroad. Speaking on Thursday at the headquarters of the Foreign Intelligence Service on the occasion of the centenary of Russian illegal intelligence, Putin listed the tasks that are priorities for foreign intelligence, including countering terrorism. abroad,» the President emphasized. According to him, the Foreign Intelligence Service must work on security, «including on the American continent, in the Western countries as a whole, in the Middle East, in Africa.» As for countering international terrorism, the tasks of the Foreign Intelligence Service are information providing Russian units stationed in Syria in identifying ways to supply militants with weapons and money, the location of their bases, command posts and training centers, Putin said. 
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