MOSCOW. June 18 (Interfax) - Four terrorist cells have been neutralized and three terror attacks prevented in the Russian Far East in the past two years, the information center of the National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC) said in a statement seen by Interfax on Tuesday.
"Three terrorist crimes have been committed and nine crimes of the kind, including three terror attacks, have been averted in the Far East since 2017. Four sleeper cells sharing the ideology of international terrorist organizations have been shut down," the statement said.
The information was provided by Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov at the NAC meeting, which addressed the prevention of terrorist threats in the Far Eastern Federal District on Tuesday, it said.
"The type of threats uncovered in the Far East require that antiterrorism commissions' chairmen step up coordination of the activity of antiterrorist agencies and improve antiterrorism defense of sites," the statement quoted Bortnikov as saying.
Antiterrorism commissions in Russian constituent territories "have been tasked with elaborating effective measures to stop the spreading of terrorist ideology," it said.