FSB prevented the terrorist acts that were planned to make during the Christmas holidays and during the presidential campaign. About it told the head of Department and head of the National antiterrorist Department Alexander Bortnikov.
yesterday in the Moscow region intelligence agencies stopped the activities of an illegal group that was preparing these attacks. It consisted of natives of Central Asia. They had intended to make an attack, as well as among them with the participation of suicide bombers.
terrorists have seized improvised explosive device, small arms and ammunition. The FSB also eliminated the " laboratory for the manufacture of tools of terror."
Just this year, intelligence agencies foiled eighteen major attacks and found 56 " conspiratorial terrorist cell ". In 2017, the FSB has eliminated 78 of the terrorists and their supporters, detained more than a thousand bandits.
According to Bortnikov, the leaders of the international groups are trying to "make pockets" of terrorists in different Russian regions.
The Federal security service also was not allowed to enter into the Russian Federation more than 17, 5 thousand foreign nationals suspected of belonging to terrorism.
The next presidential elections will be held in March 2018, the campaign should start in early winter.
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