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Safety is a priority
A seminar for students, “Current Terrorist and Extremist Threats for Young People” was held at Ural State University of Economics.
According to recent studies, Russian citizens prioritize safety — not just comfort in life, but the ability to live in a safe environment. Countering terrorism and extremism is especially pressing for future managers.
“After completing your studies, you will build your career and, at some point, lead a team. Then, you will be responsible not only for yourself but also for your employees. As managers, you will bear full responsibility—both moral and legal,” USUE Rector Yakov Silin addressed students.
In a dynamically developing society, with rapid advances in information and communications technologies and an unstable geopolitical environment, the problem of youth involvement in terrorist and extremist crimes and offenses has gained ground. According to Svetlana Plotnikova, deputy prosecutor of the Leninsky district of Yekaterinburg, recruitment through popular social media and messaging apps has become the most common way of such involvement.
“The recruitment methods vary. For example, they offer easy money online under the guise of various services. The most innocuous is to post seemingly neutral messages on social media. There are also calls to set fire to government buildings. The organizers promise between 5,000 and 50,000 rubles for performing such ‘services.’ Stay on alert!” Svetlana Plotnikova warned.
The speakers at the seminar were Sergey Shalaginov, deputy head of the Center for Combating Extremism of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Sverdlovsk region, Pavel Nogai, a lawyer with the Sverdlovsk Regional Guild of Lawyers, and Natalya Gurchenok, director of the Department of Internal Policy of the Sverdlovsk region. The experts discussed how to counter extremist threats, the consequences for those who committed illegal acts, and the online safety rules one should keep on the Internet.
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