In 1990-e years Russia has faced a wave of terror, and in the 2000s had to rebuild a system of measures to counter terrorism. In 2006, on the orders of Vladimir Putin established the national anti-terrorist Committee. Work has begun on building the national system of counter-terrorism measures. The NAC included not only the representatives of law enforcement bodies and the Federal bodies of Executive and legislative power. Work began to involve representatives of civil society, business, and religious leaders.
Now practically built a system of counter-terrorism measures at the Federal, regional and municipal levels, said Bortnikov. Together, they managed to eliminate the organized illegal armed groups in the North Caucasus, as a result – to ensure the security of major international forums and competitions: Universiade 2013 in Kazan, Olympic games 2014 in Sochi and other. “The world Cup”, – said the head of state. “Absolutely,” confirmed the source. “A lot of what was done, of course. The result of this work, the price, unfortunately, the big problems and losses, we have managed dozens of times to reduce the manifestations of terrorism in the country, especially in the North Caucasus,” he said.
the head of the FSB gave the statistics: in 2010 there were 778 of terrorist crimes, and last year – only four. “Of course, we can not guarantee a hundred percent that our work will contribute to the complete elimination of the terrorist threat, but, nevertheless, we are committed to it,” he said. For 10 years, prevented 698 terrorist crimes, 159 of which are directly of the attacks, Bortnikov reported. “It is also the fruit of the work as a power component of the Federal operational headquarters, and of the whole system, built on the lines of Committee,” he said.
Much attention is paid to identifying posobnitsey base and financing of terrorists. For 10 years identified 728 cases of financing of terrorist activities, and all of it was prevented. “The experience of the NAC demanded the world community”, – said Bortnikov. So, the Committee at year-end briefings in the UN security Council, of experience are interested in the representatives of the Western secret services and foreign States.
Only by force Antiterror impossible, therefore important role is played by prevention. Since 2008, the work on counteraction of ideology of terrorism in Russia. Bortnikov noted that the level of radicalization of the population has decreased significantly. According to him, “it’s such a piece of work” with those who were involved or participated in criminal activity related to terrorism. “More than 500 people wereabout inclined to not participate in this activity. We continue this work,” the speaker assured.
the head of the FSB told about the creation of the unified information space of anti-terrorism, the essence of which is to integrate the information which is owned by various state intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies to effectively to use it. In 2009 he started to create an international database that combines information concerning actions, events, specific persons related to terrorism. It is connected to 56 intelligence agencies from 42 States and 8 international organizations. Bortnikov noted the great interest from the UN security Council. “And of course, the foreign Ministry and the Russian security Council, these issues are always discussed and made available to various partner services and representatives of foreign States”, – he added.
