GROZNY. Oct 15 (Interfax-AVN) - As many as 146 locals of Chechnya Shelkovskaya district have been recruited to rebel groups, the district's military commandant Colonel Igor Beskrovny told Interfax-Military News Agency, quoting his operative sources on Monday.
According to Beskrovny, it was possible to find out that young people were mostly recruited for the rebel group of field commander Khadisov who had recently appeared in the Shelkovskaya district. Federals are taking a number of measures to find and detain Khadisov's emissaries.
The military commandant, heads of the Federal Security Service and Interior Ministry departments in the district, .local administration officials have met the most influential people of the Shelkovskaya district, i.e. teachers, elders and clergymen. They discussed escalation of the propaganda activities among the local youth and strengthening of the clergymen's role in the educational process.