[TASS] Tens of thousands of Islamic State militants (IS, outlawed in Russia) are located in Afghanistan, including the provinces on the border with Central Asian countries, according to intelligence, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said in an op-ed published by the Gazeta.Ru news website on Saturday.
"According to the intelligence services, now the region numbers tens of thousands of the IS militants and their followers, with the significant part of them concentrated in the northern and eastern provinces bordering the Central Asian countries. The leadership of the Islamic State openly announced plans to spread its influence to the entire region," the article dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks said.
According to Medvedev, the US during its almost 20-year-long operation in Afghanistan "could not offer anything against the Islamic State militants who massively relocated from Syria to Afghanistan." "The US pulling out of Afghanistan is only heating the activity of the terrorist organization which remains an enormous threat to Asia, Africa, Middle East and Europe," he thinks.
Medvedev pointed out that the Americans did not attain the main goal which was expressed by the country’s then-President George Bush after the September 11 attacks - the victory over terrorism in Afghanistan. "Due to many US’ miscalculations, including in the Middle Eastern policy, the terrorists continue to operate in the country’s territory," he thinks.
He also named drug production among unresolved problems in Afghanistan. Medvedev noted that Afghanistan’s drug industry reached peak production figures during the presence of US and its NATO allies in the country. According to data cited, over the past 20 years the volume of the illegal production of opiates increased from 17 to 40 times compared to the 2001 level. The share of Afghanistan in the global production of these drugs makes up about 85%.
"All these examples once again confirm the idea that it is impossible to create a democratic miracle from the outside while simultaneously ridding the world of terrorism and drugs. Washington hasn’t managed to stabilize the situation in a poor country tortured by wars, transform it into a modern state," he concluded.
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I look forward to Russia and China having to spend blood and treasure trying to stop these fanatics. I can't see them backing off. Islam says gambling with cash is a sin. Staking your life to subjugate the infidel, however, is a commandment, the reward for which, upon death, is an eternity in paradise. Both the Taliban and the foreign Islamist warriors they shelter are degenerate gamblers. We've not heard the last of them outside their borders.
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[Regnum] The new St. Petersburg Governor-General D.F. Trepov began with decisive action. He introduced martial law in the capital, demanded to resume work, and recommended that entrepreneurs make partial concessions. On January 13 (26), 1905, the strike at the factories began to decline. The issue of newspapers was resumed two days later.
"After a terrible week," noted on January 15 (28), "St. Petersburg Vedomosti", “having tortured everyone and driven to despair, with hope for the future, the Russian capital's press began to work."
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[KavkazUzel] Kidnapping of people in Russian cities for the purpose of their further export to Dagestan has become a fairly common practice in recent years. "Recruiters" are looking for potential employees at train stations in Moscow, Saratov and other large cities. Most often, the victims of slave traders are people from the provinces who come to large cities to work. In addition to Dagestan slavery, it is worth remembering that in the 1990s, there was a practice of kidnapping people in Chechnya for the purpose of ransom. The abducted were then also used as forced laborers. If you look into the more distant past, you can see that the use of slave labor was a typical phenomenon in the history of the Caucasus.
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It’s been a while since we had a Sunday morning coffee pot. How exciting!
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Sounds like the average Chechen is getting fed up with Ramzen Kadyrov's bullshit.
[KavkazUzel] Last month, a Chechen telegram group based in Turkey, Security Turkey, began to threaten to unmask Chechen state and Russian FSB operatives in Turkey, according to data supplied in a Transcaucasus news outlet.
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[KavkazUzel] The operational headquarters decided to cancel the counter-terrorist operation in the Buinaksky district of Dagestan, where two militants were killed.
The "Caucasian Knot" previously reported that on the morning of September 10, a counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced in the Buinaksk region.
The special operation took place in the forest near the village of Talgi, where a lot of military men appeared in the village itself, local residents said. The National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) has reported the killing of two militants by security forces who opened fire in response to a demand to surrender.
According to sources, those killed in a special operation in the Buinaksky district of Dagestan were identified as Uruj Ramazanov and Eiruz Abdulaev.
The counter-terrorist operation in the Buinaksk region has been lifted, with reference to the republic's FSB department reported to RIA Novosti.
"The head of the FSB of Russia for the Republic of Dagestan, the head of the operational headquarters in the republic, made a decision to lift the counter-terrorist operation from 1745 hrs in certain areas in the Buinaksk region of the republic," he was quoted by TASS agency as saying.
The official version of the reasons for the CTO raised doubts among Instagram users, who indicated that the state of the items shown in the video about the special operation, which, according to the security officials, belonged to the killed militants, does not correspond to the conditions in the forest.
The special operation in the Buinaksky region became the second in Dagestan since the beginning of the year. Previously, CTO was held on March 11 in Makhachkala.
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