IG supporter preparing terrorist attack detained in Dagestan

According to RIA Novosti, the National Anti-Terrorism Center said this.

“When trying to remove a self-made explosive device of high power from the cache, a Russian citizen born in 2000 was detained,” the department said.

The NAC stated that the detainee intended "to carry out a terrorist act against law enforcement officers and local authorities."

It was previously reported that in 17 regions of Russia in 2019, officers of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia identified conspiratorial cells of terrorists.

It is noted that the activity of the cells was suppressed in the Krasnodar, Stavropol and Krasnoyarsk territories, Moscow, as well as the Astrakhan, Vladimir, Moscow, Rostov, Samara, Saratov, Tyumen regions, the republics of Dagestan, Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Chechnya, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

* “Islamic State” (IG) - the organization was recognized as terrorist by decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of December 29, 2014.