MOSCOW. April 30 (Interfax-AVN) - A total of 642 terrorist crimes were registered in Russia in 2008, which was less than in 2007, Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika said in a report posted at the Federation Council Legal and Court Affairs Committee on Thursday.
Chaika will deliver his report at the house on Friday.
The rate of terrorist crimes is on decline, he said, adding that stricter criminal laws were the reason.
At the same time, the rate of registered terrorist crimes might not correspond to the reality, Chaika said. He said with the reference to the Federal Security Service that 97 terrorist crimes, including 50 terrorist acts in public places, were prevented in Russia last year.
"The number of illegal armed groups and their members has stabilized in Russia," the prosecutor general said. A total of 522 crimes of the sort were registered last year, but only one person was prosecuted and convicted for funding an organized terrorist group.
In the opinion of Chaika, the police were not quite efficient in the exposure and termination of terrorism funding.