FSB Says It Dismantled Terrorist Cell in Nizhny Novgorod Region

The Silovikis reported the detention in the Nizhegorod region of a group of Islamists who had been "cured" from Poland.

FSB Says It Dismantled Terrorist Cell in Nizhny Novgorod Region

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said Monday that it dismantled a terrorist cell in the Nizhny Novgorod region that was allegedly working with handlers based in Poland.

In Nizhny Novgorod, two migrants were arrested and accused of forming a terrorist organization, and 30 relatives of the former Deputy Minister of Defence, Abduhalim Nazarzoda, were expelled from their home by the Tajikistan authorities.

In the Nizhny Novgorod region, FSB officers detained seven members of an international terrorist organization banned in Russia, RIA Novosti reported. The defendants were supervised by an emissary from Poland.