
The operational control of the FSB contains 220 potential suicide bombers. According to Interfax, the director of the special services Alexander Bortnikov stated this.
More than 260 people suspected of involvement in terrorism are put on the international wanted list, the head of the FSB added.
Bortnikov also said that the special service received documents indicating the plans of terrorists "from a number of countries of the Middle East" to intensify activities in the North Caucasus.
The Islamists, the security forces said, actively use messengers with communication encryption, including Telegram, WhatsApp and Viber, through which the supporters of the instructions for performing terrorist attacks indicate specific goals and inform about the work of special services.
In this regard, RBC reports , Bortnikov announced the need to "solve the problem of uncontrolled and anonymity" of "the Internet.
The director of the FSB also complained to the "obsessive heroization of suicide bombers, the creation of a halo of martyrs for faith around them." The formation of such a background, idealizing "individual terror", achieves his goal, he remarked.
In early July, Vladimir Putin signed the "Laws of Yarova" , which significantly tighten the "anti -terrorism" legislation. Among the other short stories of the package - the requirement for communication operators to store information on the activity of users during the year (for instant messengers and social networks) and three years (for other services and operators), and messages and other content, including video, within six months.