Moscow-Sana
The head of the General Directorate of Counter-Extremism in the Russian Interior Ministry Oleg Elingh announced that the security services revealed during 2019 many of the terrorist cells belonging to the Islamic State in 17 Russian regions.
`` In 2019 alone, the FSB and the Interior Ministry thwarted the activities of IS cells in Krasnodar, Stavropol, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Astrakhan and Vladimir provinces, '' Elenig said in an article published in the Russian police newspaper entitled 'Preventing Hate and Hostility'. Rostov, Samara, Saratov, Tyumen, Republics of Dagestan, Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Chechnya, Khanty-Mansiysk and Yamalo-Nenetsk Autonomous Territories ”.
In the first half of 2019, 972 terrorist offenses were also uncovered, he added.
Russia's security services are waging campaigns against local extremist groups with ties to ISIS and other terrorist organizations seeking to turn a number of regions in Russia into hotbeds of instability and also to recruit Russian nationals and send them out of the country.