In Russia, ten times reduced manifestations of terrorist activity, the Director of the Federal security service Alexander Bernikov President Vladimir Putin. Broadcast of the meeting, held at the residence Novoogarevo, led channel “Russia 24”. Bortnikov reported to the President on the outcome of the meeting of the National antiterrorist Committee.
“We have managed through joint efforts to eliminate the organized illegal armed groups in the North Caucasus,” — said the head of the FSB.
According to Bortnikov, because it has managed to provide security for such major international forums and competitions in the country, as the Universiade 2013 in Kazan, the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, the football world Cup in 2018.
“If in 2010 there were 778 of terrorist crimes in the past year — only four,” said the FSB Director.
Alexander Bortnikov told the President about cooperation with foreign intelligence agencies in the joint fight against terrorism, in particular, on creation of a unified anti-terrorism information space, allowing to combine information of various States and intelligence services.
“In the framework of realization of this idea in 2009, we began to create an international data Bank, a database that combine different kinds of information, concerning actions, events, specific persons related to terrorist component. To date, this international data Bank connected 56 special services from 42 States and 8 international organizations”, — said the head of the FSB.
