MOSCOW. Feb 28 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered that the Federal Security Service (FSB) continue to identify those using social networks to recruit Russians into extremist and terrorist cells.
"Naturally, work should be continued to identify and stop the actions of those who are using the Internet and social networks for propaganda and terrorist and extremist indoctrination and trying to draw our citizens into cells. Of course, you and I know well that the most vulnerable category here is minors," Putin said at an expanded FSB board meeting on Tuesday.
It is necessary to develop regional segments of the national antiterrorism system, including those in the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, he said.
Putin also noted the need for actively countering extremism, as the number of such crimes grew over the past year.
"Clearly, we should detect and stop the illegal activity of those who are trying to split and weaken our society and who are using separatism, nationalism, neo-Nazism and xenophobia as a weapon. This has also been used against our country and now such attempts have obviously grown more active - the attempts at activating all that scum on our land," Putin said.