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2K on Dagestan terror watchlist
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] A total of 1,967 residents of Dagestan are on the wanted list as members of international terrorist organizations, Abdurashid Magomedov, the republic's interior minister, said at a session of the People's Assembly.
Good to know. If only they would admit which specific organizations, that would be even more helpful.
"Last year, 104 Dagestanis who left for Syria to participate in international terrorist organizations were put on the wanted list, and 23 were detained upon their return from there. In total, there are currently 1,967 people on the wanted list of Dagestanis who took part in terrorist organizations abroad, " quoted the TASS minister.

Over the past year, the number of registered crimes of a terrorist nature in the republic has decreased by almost a third and amounted to 493 cases, while about 85% of such crimes were committed outside of Russia. "These are criminal cases initiated against citizens of Dagestan in the course of operational and other activities, their participation in the period 2015-2016 as part of armed gangs in the territories of Syria and Iraq was revealed. Currently, according to operational data, this category of persons has moved to the northern regions of Uzbekistan, " said Abdurashid Magomedov.

In 2021, 217 criminal cases were initiated in Dagestan against residents of the republic who had previously left for Syria to participate in illegal armed groups, Chernovik reported today with reference to the report of the minister.

114 people were put on the international wanted list, 23 were detained after their return. Among those wanted are those who went to Syria back in 2013-2016. Also, seven channels for the supply of firearms to the region, including from Ukraine, were blocked, nine workshops for the manufacture and conversion of civilian weapons into a military analogue were liquidated, 458 firearms were seized from illegal circulation, the publication reported.

The report of Police Lieutenant General Abdurashid Magomedov was also published today on the website of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Dagestan.

The police eliminated six sleeping terrorist cells in Makhachkala, Derbent and Buynaksk regions, as well as in the penal colony of the Federal Penitentiary Service. In the republic, six accomplices of illegal armed groups were forced to confess, 53 members of the underground and two members of international terrorist organizations in Syria were detained. During the provision of armed resistance, four people were liquidated, the report said.

"[A total of]246 firearms, 15 IEDs, 96 grenades, over 22,700 rounds of ammunition, other ammunition and explosives were seized from the terrorists' arsenal," the minister's report said.

In the republic, 230 Internet users were brought to administrative responsibility for posting extremist materials in public access, as well as calls for participation in unauthorized mass actions. Roskomnadzor has blocked 1,096 websites and pages on the Internet that contain materials of an extremist nature, the agency reported.

The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that, according to investigators, a 38-year-old resident of Izberbash joined the ranks of the international religious association "Nurcular"
...it has millions of followers around the globe, especially in Turkey, and has been banned in Russia since 2008. They want a Turkic caliphate comprising those regions of the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Russia's North Caucasus and Volga regions...
*, where he studied extremist ideology.

Posted by: badanov 2022-04-01
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