MOSCOW. Nov 17 (Interfax) - The terror crime rate grew by over 14% in Russia in 2011, Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Grin said at a Moscow conference on the suppression of extremism and terrorism on Thursday.
"The number of terror crimes grew by over 14% in Russia this year. Despite the solutions to such crimes and the preventive measures, terrorists manage to succeed; there were explosions in the Moscow metro in 2010 and in the Domodedovo Airport in 2011," he said.
Grin expressed concern about the situation in some North Caucasian republics. "The terror threat in this country is taking shape under the influence of external and domestic factors. The biggest threat comes from North Caucasian militants, who are particularly active in Dagestan, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria," he said.
The extremist crime rate doubled within the past five years, the deputy prosecutor general said. "There are two main types of extremist crimes in Russia. First, religious separatist organizations up to illegal armed units are formed under the influence of foreign preachers of pseudo-Islamic ideas. They mostly have military-political goals rather than ideological. Second, there is a growth of Russian nationalist activity as a response to the first trend. Such activity frequently turns from aggressive up to terror acts against foreign and Russian citizens," Grin said.