SEVASTOPOL. April 14 (Interfax) - Six terror attacks were averted in Crimea last year, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said.
"Six terror attacks and ten terrorist crimes were averted and 23 crimes associated with extremism were detected in Crimea last year," Patrushev said at a meeting on the provision of national security in Crimea, which took place in Sevastopol on Wednesday.
Yet another terror attack plotted by followers of the Hayat Tahrir ash-Sham international terrorist organization (banned in Russia) was prevented in Simferopol on April 9, he said.
The statistics "demonstrate the complexity of the operative situation in the region," Patrushev said, adding that "opinion polls indicate that most residents of the peninsula view terrorist and extremist indoctrination as a quite real threat."