He said this during a meeting on topical issues of ensuring national security in the Siberian Federal District.

“Last year, nine terrorist crimes were prevented, of which four were terrorist attacks,” Patrusheva quotes TASS.

He added that the activities of eight secret terrorist cells were also stopped in the regions and 13 cases of terrorist financing were revealed.

Earlier in the Tver region, a verdict was passed on a resident who was planning a terrorist attack on May 9.

Realnoe Vremya reported that a verdict was passed in Tatarstan in the case of false reporting of a terrorist threat.