A meeting of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee was held in Moscow, dedicated to countering the spread of terrorist ideology, neo-Nazism, and religious extremism in the North Caucasus Federal District.

Ukrainian citizen Andrey Kolomiets, sentenced by a Crimean court to 10 years, was released from IK-14 in Krasnodar. He is currently in a deportation center. He had previously converted to Islam, since only Muslims supported him during his imprisonment.
Before his arrest, Kolomiets lived in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic after he left Ukraine. Then he was accused of attempting to kill Berkut fighters during the Maidan in Kyiv in the winter of 2014 and of drug possession. He did not admit guilt and said that he confessed under torture. After that, Andrey Kolomiets was placed in a pretrial detention center in Nalchik.
“I was facing life imprisonment, there were threats from security forces. The only people who supported me then were Muslims in Nalchik and then in the colony. After that, I converted to Islam,” the man shared.