Terrorism in Russia

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2024

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, accused of preparing a terrorist attack at Rostelecom facilities were convicted

In mid-August 2024, a military court sentenced two residents of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Vyacheslav Koromyslov and Sergei Nazarchuk, accused of preparing a terrorist attack at Rostelecom communications facilities. According to the investigation, the accused planned to blow up cell sites in order to protest the current government and prevent the sending of subpoenas for those mobilized through Public services. The court sentenced them to seven and six years in prison, respectively. Read more here.

More than 15 people died in militant attacks in Derbent and Makhachkala

On the evening of June 23, 2024, militants staged a series of attacks in the Republic of Dagestan. In Derbent, shooting was opened in the area of ​ ​ the Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos and the arson of the building of the Kele-Numaz synagogue was organized. Meanwhile, in Makhachkala around the same time, unknown persons fired at the traffic police post, and then staged a series of attacks in the north-west of the city, including in the vicinity of the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The head of the region Sergey Melikov made an appeal to the population. According to him, six militants were eliminated in Makhachkala and Derbent, while more than 15 police officers became victims of the terrorist attack, there are dead among civilians. For more details see Dagestan.

Rosfinmonitoring: The attack in Crocus was financed through cryptocurrency

On April 25, 2024, the head of Rosfinmonitoring Yuri Chikhanchin, speaking at an international forum on topical issues of combating money laundering and terrorist financing, said that the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall was financed through cryptocurrency. Read more here.

FSB thwarted terrorist plans, preventing explosions in a Moscow synagogue and at a military facility in the DPR

In Moscow, during the arrest, a native of Central Asia was liquidated, planning to carry out a terrorist attack at the time of a mass gathering of believers in a religious center. In his homeland, he served time in a colony and, on his own initiative, came into contact there with persons convicted of terrorist activities.

In Donetsk, FSB officers stopped the activities of a group of six Central Asian citizens who were going to blow up one of the objects of the RF Armed Forces. The Ukrainian side was engaged in the coordination of terrorist activities. After committing the crime, the gang members planned to leave for Turkey, and from there to Ukraine.

In the counterterrorism operation in the suburb of Nalchik, two people planning a terrorist attack were eliminated

During the CTO in the suburb of Nalchik on April 11, 2024, two terrorists who provided armed resistance were eliminated, two bandits were neutralized.

The militants planned to carry out a terrorist attack on the territory of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic. Explosives technicians and FSB officers work at the scene of the shootout, there are no losses among the security forces.

133 people shot by terrorists in the Crocus City Hall concert hall under the control of Ukraine

On March 23, 2024, the head FSB reported to the president Russia Putin about the detention of 11 people, including all 4 terrorists who directly participated in the terrorist attack in "" on the Crocus City Hall evening of March 22 before the concert of the Picnic group.

Further work is underway to identify an aiding base in the case of the terrorist attack.

Special services detained in the Bryansk region four suspects from among the persons who committed the terrorist attack, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation said. Investigators began to work with them.

The terrorists involved in the attack tried to hide towards the Russian-Ukrainian border. The terrorists planned to cross the border and had contacts on the Ukrainian side. The terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall was carefully planned - the FSB.

The death toll from the Crocus attack is 93. The death toll after the terrorist attack will still increase - the RF IC.

Terrorist Trepova, who blew up the military commander, was sentenced to 27 years in prison

In January 2024, terrorist Daria Trepova, responsible for the explosion and murder of military commander Vladlen Tatarsky St. Petersburg in 2023, was sentenced to 27 years in a general regime colony. The accomplice who sheltered her got off for a period of 1 year and 9 months.

Earlier, the prosecutor's office requested 28 years for the criminal. Taking into account the fact that life imprisonment and strict regime for women are not provided for in Russia, Trepova received an almost maximum term in accordance with current legislation.

2023

3.5-fold increase in terrorist attacks

In 2023 Russia , about 2.5 thousand terrorist attacks were committed, which is 3.5 times more than a year earlier. Such figures Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Igor Krasnov were cited on April 24, 2024, speaking with an annual report Federation Council on the state of law and order. According to him, most of the terrorist crimes in 2023 were committed by participants in Ukrainian radical organizations and their adherents, as well as ardent opponents of the special military operation of the Russian Federation on. To Ukraine

According to Krasnov, the scale of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, which took place in March 2024, showed the need to revise the norms of the law on safety at such facilities.

source = Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

Today, regardless of the form of ownership, it is necessary to establish uniform requirements for anti-terrorist security and passports of categorized objects. In addition, administrative responsibility should be tightened up to the suspension of activities for their untimely renewal, the Prosecutor General emphasized.

According to him, social networks are actively used by provocateurs to spread radical ideology and false information. For example, through Telegram channels, Russians often receive information calling for destructive activities, including instructions for sabotage, taking away weapons from police and military officers, Igor Krasnov said.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, which the department cited in February 2024, 2382 crimes of a terrorist nature were registered in 2023. In December 2023, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) reported on the prevention of 228 terrorist crimes in Russia, including 146 terrorist attacks, since the beginning of 2023.^[1]

Rosfinmonitoring for the year included 1,100 people in the list of terrorists

In 2023, Rosfinmonitoring included more than 1,700 citizens in the list of extremists and terrorists, of which 1,100 are related to terrorist activities. In 2022, there were 1600 and 970 such defendants, respectively. It turns out that the increase in the number of such persons over the year exceeded 6% and 13%, respectively. The relevant data in the press service of financial intelligence were disclosed in mid-January 2024.

They also recalled that Rosfinmonitoring administers the list by including and excluding persons on the grounds provided for in Article 6 of the Federal Law of August 7, 2001 No. 115-FZ "On countering the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and the financing of terrorism.

Rosfinmonitoring included more than 1,700 citizens in the list of extremists and terrorists

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for 2023 sent 227 criminal cases on crimes of a terrorist nature to the courts, including 34 cases on the financing of terrorism. About this chairman of the TFR Alexander Bastrykin told in mid-January 2024. According to him, in the conditions of a special operation, the Ukrainian special services are trying to conduct their subversive activities, while they do not disdain terrorist methods and do not look at possible accidental victims.

At the end of December 2023, the director of the FSBAlexander Bortnikov said that in 2023, special services and law enforcement agencies prevented 228 terrorist crimes in Russia, including 146 terrorist attacks. The National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) has blocked the accounts of more than 4 thousand persons involved in the financing of terrorism and Ukrainian armed groups, totaling over 110 million rubles. Bortnikov also cited data according to which in 2023 more than 15.5 thousand materials of terrorist content were removed from the Russian segment of the Internet.^[2]

2022: More than 1,500 convicted for terrorism and extremism

In 2022, 875 people were convicted of terrorist crimes and 693 were convicted of extremist crimes. This was announced in mid-February 2023 by Chairman Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Lebedev at a meeting of chairmen of republican, regional, regional, arbitration and military courts following the work of the judicial system Russia in 2022 with the participation of the President of Russia.

As noted by TASS, in 2021, 682 people were convicted of terrorist crimes, and 606 for extremist crimes.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, published at the end of January 2023, at the end of 2022, 2233 crimes of a terrorist nature were registered in Russia (+ 4.5% by 2021) and 1566 crimes of an extremist orientation (+ 48.2%).

In 2022, more than 1,500 people were convicted of terrorism and extremism in Russia

The ministry also said that the total damage from crimes in 2022 decreased by 10.3% and amounted to 748.3 billion rubles. At the same time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs noted, almost two-thirds of the damage (62.1%) falls on crimes in cities and urban-type settlements.

In June 2022, the State Duma adopted an amendment on the creation of a register of information about persons involved in the activities of an extremist or terrorist organization. It was proposed for the second reading of the bill on the creation of a specialized information bank for extremist materials.

According to the National Anti-Terrorist Committee, 123 "terrorist crimes" were prevented in 12 months, including 64 terrorist attacks. At the same time, the most such crimes were in the border regions.

Crimes using weapons and ammunition began to be committed more often: according to this indicator, they are in the lead Kurskaya (+ 675%) Belgorod region and (+ 213.3%), Moscow (+ 203.2%). The number of grave and especially grave crimes committed by organized groups or criminal communities increased by 21.5^[3]

2021

In Russia, the number of convicted terrorism increased to 682 people

In 2021, 682 people were convicted of terrorism in Russia against 575 a year earlier. For extremist crimes, the number of convicts during this time increased from 325 to 606 people. This was announced on February 9, 2022 by the Chairman of the Supreme Court of Russia Vyacheslav Lebedev, speaking at a meeting of judges of courts of general jurisdiction and arbitration courts. Read more here.

18 years of strict regime for raising funds for terrorists in Syria

The Southern District Military Court in April 2021 sentenced Mark Davydov, a native of Alushta, to 18 years in prison, finding him guilty of financing Syrian militants and trying to join terrorists. He intended to fly to Istanbul, but was detained at the checkpoint of the Krasnodar International Airport by officers of the FSB in the region.

Davydov in 2016 met Farrukh Fayzimatov, a member of the Jebhat al-Nusra terrorist organization banned in Russia, which is fighting government forces in Syria. Fayzimatov, while in Syria, suggested that Davydov collect money from residents of Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union through electronic settlement accounts of the QIWI Wallet for their further transfer to bank cards of Syrian militants.

Since the QIWI Wallet is registered with the subscriber number of the mobile phone, Davydov purchased from unidentified persons five SIM-cards of the mobile operator MTS belonging to residents of the Krasnodar Territory, who did not know that their data was being used for criminal purposes. For three months of 2018, Russians sympathizing with Syrian militants "donated" through QIWI Purse more than half a million rubles. (570 thousand rubles). The money was cashed out by terrorists at Idlib ATMs.

During the trial, Davydov explained that he converted to Islam in 1999, when he married a Crimean Tatar woman, following the requirements of her family. The court considered Davydov's guilt proven and sentenced him to 18 years in prison in a maximum security penal colony.

See also

• Terrorism in Spain

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