MOSCOW, February 13 (RIA Novosti) - A total of 120 bandits and international terrorist organizations' emissaries were killed or arrested in Russia in 2006, the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) said Tuesday.
Nikolai Patrushev told the first session of the Russian National Antiterrorism Committee that more than 300 terrorist attacks were prevented in Russia in 2006, and that a total of 546 militants gave themselves up to police during an amnesty that ended January 15.
Although the latest war in Chechnya officially ended in 2001, which together with the first left up to 100,000 Chechens dead, periodic bombings and clashes between gunmen and Federal troops still disrupt the republic's comparative calm, with the violence often spilling over into adjacent regions.
