Terror threat

Russian regions protected insufficiently from new IS units — expert

Russian regions are protected insufficiently from new units representing the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization outlawed in Russia, Evgeny Birukov of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS) said on Friday.

"As yet, Russian regions are protected insufficiently from organization of the IS units," he said. "Members of the terrorist organization outlawed in Russia may enter any region of the federation."

"For example, in Yekaterinburg people were detained who come from Central Asia, and they'd entered the region pretending to be labor migrants," he said. "Situation of the kind may occur in any other region, as well."

However, the expert said, the people originating from Central Asia share our common cultural and historic heritage.