Almost 3,000 Russians Left Country to Join Terrorist Groups

  25 May 2016    Read: 806
Almost 3,000 Russians Left Country to Join Terrorist Groups
Some 3,000 Russian citizens have gone to join terrorist organizations abroad, Russian National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC) deputy head Yevgeny Ilyin said Wednesday, AzVision.az reports citing Sputnik.
"As of today, we have data on nearly 3,000 Russians espousing terrorist ideology having left the country in order to take part in international terrorist organizations` activities," Ilyin said when speaking at the Modern Security Systems — Antiterror forum in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk.

Those joining terror groups are mainly from Russia`s North Caucasus region, Ilyin noted, adding that four quarters of these are uneducated, under 30 years of age and poor.

Recruit travel routes pass mainly through Turkey and Egypt, as well as Azerbaijan, Belarus and Ukraine, according to the NAC deputy head.

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