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Afghanistan
Russian Prosecutor General's Office has requested a suspension of the ban on Taliban activities
2025-04-01
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Russian Prosecutor General's Office is asking to suspend the ban on the activities of the Taliban movement (under UN sanctions for terrorist activities). This was announced on March 31 by the press service of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.
Not a choice I would have made, given the various jihadi groups the Taliban shelters on their territory, some with connections to Russia. Another Beslan, another Crocus City Hall… but it that’s what you want, to feel like a world player, go for it.
“The administrative claim of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation to suspend the ban on the activities of the Taliban movement, which is included in the single federal list of organizations, including foreign and international organizations, recognized as terrorist in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, has been accepted for processing,” the press service responded to journalists’ questions.

It is noted that the court scheduled the consideration of the Prosecutor General's Office's application for April 17.

In Russia, the Taliban movement was recognized as a terrorist organization in 2003.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on December 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law introducing a mechanism for temporarily suspending the ban on the activities of a terrorist organization by a court decision. It was specified that this could happen if there was actual data on the cessation of activities aimed at promoting, justifying and supporting terrorism. In addition, after the court decision is made, a copy will be sent to the FSB within five days for further changes to the list of terrorist organizations.

Earlier, on December 10, the State Duma also adopted in the first reading a bill to exclude this movement from the list of those banned in Russia.

In November, the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov noted that the removal of the terrorist organization status from the Taliban is necessary for the development of contacts with the Afghan authorities. The Kremlin representative emphasized that Moscow intends to establish relations with this country.

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