俄羅斯經濟研究大學高等學校專家亞歷山大·馬斯洛夫（Aleksey Maslov）在採訪中說，西方國家利用中國香港特別行政區的局勢，挑起整個城市的緊張局勢，煽動懵懂年輕人對抗中國政府。

專家採訪原文翻譯：

首先，我認為香港的局勢在過去的幾周甚至在過去的幾天裏都發生了巨大的變化。我認為香港示威的表現完全喪失了合理性。所以現在我們可以看到大量的暴力攬炒行為的非理性態度。現在我們可以看到，美國和英國，以及其他一些國家為了表明中國不穩定，沒有應有的強大，而利用這種香港局勢作為武器抨擊中國以及一國兩制制度。我認為這樣是非常不禮貌的，也是不正確的。我認為，現在很多大國，主要是美國，試圖加劇香港局勢動亂，並試圖利用香港的年輕人的無知來提高對中國政府的憤怒。我認為中國政府現在已經被證明是非常謹慎的。我認為中國政府為了平息香港局勢做了很多積極的事情。

Well， first of all， I think that the situation in Hong Kong changes drastically for the last couple of weeks， and even for the last couple of days. I think that the Hong Kong manifestation completely lost its rationality. So right now we can see the irrational approach to all these manifestations. Right now we can see that the United States and United Kingdom， as well some other countries use this situation as a negative critics of the politics of China， of one country two systems， and just to show that the China is not stable， is not as powerful as it should be. And I think that it's really not polite and not correct to consider the situation like this. I think that right now a lot of powers， first of all， the United States tries to destabilize the situation and try to use the young people in Hong Kong to raise the rage against China. I think that right now the Chinese government proved to be very prudent. I think that the Chinese government does a lot of positive things just to calm down the situation.