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Article: Terrorist attacks in Russia rise by over half in 2003
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- January 20, 2004
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Terrorist attacks in Russia rise by over half in 2003 EDS-Recast
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MOSCOW, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Russia witnessed 561 premeditated
terrorist attacks in 2003, 55.8 percent up on the previous year,
Russia's Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.
Yury Demidov, first deputy chief of the ministry's organized crime
department, told a news conference that terrorism remains a major
threat to the country.
Demidov said over 400 terrorist attacks were perpetrated in
southern Russia, including 386 in the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
"These terrorist attacks, which have seriously undermined public
security and order in the country, are maintaining the terrorist
threat ...