MOSCOW. Oct 28 (Interfax) - The international terrorist group ISIL has drastically changed the political situation in the Middle East and North Africa, Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov has said.
"ISIL and forces behind it have drastically changed the political and inter-religious situation in the Middle East and North Africa," Bortnikov said at a meeting of the Council of Heads of National Security Enforcement Agencies and Special Services of the CIS on Wednesday.
By use of modern propaganda technologies, "they seeded mistrust in power institutes and distorted traditional Islamic values amongst broad Islamic [population] layers," Bortnikov said.
"Holding a massive propaganda campaign and actively using latest achievements in the information field, ISIL, Jabhat al-Nusra and some other terrorist groups acting as a single front have managed to globally popularize the extremist ideology and to draw under their banners the most active social groups, first of all youngsters," Bortnikov said.