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Article: Terrorist attacks declines in Russia last year
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- June 1, 2007
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Terrorist attacks declines in Russia last year
MOSCOW, June 1 (Xinhua) -- The terrorist attacks in Russia
declined greatly last year compared to that in 2005, a senior anti-
terrorist official said Friday.
"The number of terrorist attacks in Russia has dropped," deputy
head of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC) Department Sergei
Bezmin was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.
In 2006, there were 162 terrorist attacks in the country, compared
to 257 in 2005. The most dangerous regions in terms of the terrorist
threat are Chechnya and Dagestan, but even there terrorist activities
are on the decline, he said.
In Chechnya 111 terrorist attacks were committed in 2005 and 74 ...