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Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov stated that Russia had issued the wanted list of 260 people, suspected in "terrorist activities," during the 15th meeting of heads of special services, security agencies and law enforcement organisations in St. Petersburg, Wednesday.

SOT, Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Federal Security Service of Russia (Russian): "Today we receive confirmed information about the plans of gang leaders currently in hiding in a number of Middle East countries, to continue their terrorist activities and try to incite North Caucasus militant organisations, whose activities we have managed to suppress, disunite and mainly neutralise the key players. Being forced to operate from abroad, functionaries of international terrorist organisations learned to effectively and remotely control their terrorist networks. They use all available communication tools from contact agents to satellite communication systems, including the internet."

SOT, Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Federal Security Service of Russia (Russian): "The gang leaders do not only recruit the militants, but also actively use encryption programs and popular instant messengers such as Telegram, WhatsApp, and Viber. They send their supporters detailed instructions for terrorist activities, tactics, specify the purpose of carrying out the terrorist attacks and also provide information about forms and methods of the security services' work."

SOT, Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Federal Security Service of Russia (Russian): "In our opinion, the most important thing is to put professional interests in the first place without politicisation of the issues of combating international terrorism. We appeal to our partners to focus their attention on the investigation, detention and the extradition of terrorists to their countries, not to third parties. In that regard, I want to draw your attention to the fact that Russian enforcement authorities issued an international wanted list of more than 260 people, whose continued intensive organisation and preparatory work for the transfer of its terrorist activity to Russia and a number of other states."