Comment: The following commentary by Steven MacMillan for NEO highlights the involvement of Western NGOs in the co-called 'color revolutions', i.e. covert coups d'etat. Putin made the right choice in expelling USAID from Russia, among other steps to hamstring the operation of foreign operatives intent on destabilizing Russia and bringing it under the control of Western financial and political interests.
Colour revolutions are based upon a fusion of the Rand Corporation's "swarming" technique invented in the 1960's and Professor Gene Sharp's guide to nonviolent struggle in the 1990's. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) act as an extension of western intelligence agencies to create artificial revolutionary movements in countries that oppose Anglo-American hegemony through the use of social networks and text messaging, resulting in the overthrow of unfavorable regimes. They always appear as organic demonstrations by a people against a corrupt ruling class, which is reinforced and sometimes manufactured by the mainstream corporate media, but in reality they are organised by foreign NGOs - like in the case of the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Actions and Strategies (CANVAS), a U.S supported Serbian based "revolution consultancy" group, which was operating in Ukraine during 2013-14. The 2000 coup in Serbia, the 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia and the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine are some of the most notorious coups where this technique has been used.
Comment: For a better idea on why the West hates Putin so much, see: 2007: Vladimir Putin exposes the NWO, post speech Q&A
See also: Russian Maidan in St. Petersburg in September