Ildar Khalikov takes part in meeting on issues of suppression of religious Islamic extremism in Volga Federal District

Interdepartmental meeting on issues of improvement of interaction between concerned agencies and in the sphere of prevention and suppression of religious Islamic extremism on the territory of Volga Federal District took place in Samara.

The meeting was held by Deputy RF Prosecutor General Sergei Zaitsev, Deputy RF Prosecutor General Viktor Grin, and Plenipotentiary of the Russian President in Volga Federal District Mikhail Babich. Tatarstan was presented by the Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov.

Mikhail Babich noted that 40 % of all Muslims of the country live in VFD, there are more than 150 places of compact habitation of Muslims. “We cannot stay indifferent to Islamic extremism. Main reasons of extremism are low salaries and impossibility of self-realization,” he said.

Mikhail Babich supposes that control over information of extremism nature published in the Internet must be intensified.

Plenipotentiary of the Russian President in Volga Federal District urged law enforcement bodies to enhance control for money flow from extremist Islamic organizations from abroad.