The FSB conducted searches of 187 members of the “Internet communities” Columbine and Maniacs. Cult of Murder"

In 46 regions of the country, FSB officers searched 187 members of "Internet communities" associated with supporters of the Columbine and Maniacs movements; The cult of murders ”(M.K.U.). This was reported on the website of the department.

“In 46 regions of the Russian Federation, operational-search activities and investigative actions were carried out against 187 Russian citizens, members of online communities of supporters of the ideology of mass murder, administered by the moderators of the terrorist movement Columbine and the Ukrainian radical group Maniacs; murder cult,” the publication said.

Security forces confiscated from 30 people "cold weapons, communications equipment containing materials of a terrorist and extremist nature, correspondence with Ukrainian members of nationalist armed groups, as well as photographs and videos of so-called "direct action" actions, instructions for their implementation using improvised explosives and incendiary devices."

• On February 2, the Supreme Court of Russia, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, recognized Columbine as a terrorist movement and banned its activities in the country. Columbine is the name of the American school where two students, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, shot 13 people in 1999 and planted bombs in the dining room. In the future, they began to call it attacks on educational institutions. The Supreme Court considered it to be an "international youth movement".
• Mediazona drew attention to the fact that the FSB began to report on the arrests of alleged supporters of the Maniacs. Murder Cult" from the beginning of 2021. Information about detentions and searches appeared in March , April , May , July and December of that year. They were charged with creating an extremist community (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code), as well as justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) and inciting hatred (Article 282 of the Criminal Code) in the Internet.