From January to September 2025, 4,467 "terrorist-related crimes" were registered in Russia, TASS reports data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. This is the maximum in recent years, writes DW.
In Russia, the number of "terrorist-related crimes" registered from January to September 2025 has reached a maximum in recent years. This was reported on Sunday, November 23, by TASS, citing materials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation that came into the agency's possession.
"From January to September 2025, 4,467 terrorist-related crimes were registered," journalists quote the studied materials. For comparison, during the same period in 2024, according to these data, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation recorded 2.6 thousand such crimes. In January to September 2023, there were 1,713. Meanwhile, in the first nine months of 2022, there were 1,818, according to the report.
Terrorist-related crimes include not only terrorist acts but also assistance to terrorist activities, public calls for them, and financing. They also include hostage-taking, organizing a terrorist community or organization and participating in them, as well as failing to report planned terrorist crimes, TASS explains.
Crimes of an extremist nature under the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation include crimes committed on the grounds of political, ideological, racial, national, or religious hatred or enmity, as well as on the grounds of hatred or enmity against any social group.
In Russia, 300 people are declared 'terrorists' and 'extremists' monthly
As the online publication The Moscow Times writes, by the end of October 2025, the register of "terrorists" and "extremists" maintained by Rosfinmonitoring included 18,771 people.
According to the online publication Novaya Gazeta. Europe, since the beginning of 2025, the agency has been adding 250-300 people to this list monthly. Thus, in 2022, 1.4 thousand people were included in the Rosfinmonitoring list of "terrorists" and "extremists", in 2023 - 1.8 thousand, in 2024 - 3.2 thousand, and from January to October 2025, the register was supplemented by another 3,031 people. "Starting from 2024, Rosfinmonitoring adds about 3 thousand 'terrorists and extremists' to the list annually, while at the beginning of the war (Russia against Ukraine - Ed.) the list expanded at half the speed," the authors state.
In June 2021, Russian authorities declared the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), created by the now-deceased opposition figure Alexei Navalny, an "extremist" organization. After that, persecution began in the country against those who donated to the activities of this foundation under articles on "financing extremism."
