In Irkutsk Region, an Anti Terrorism Commission and Operational Headquarters meeting was held, where they decided to create an expert advisory council for implementing information policy in countering terrorism and extremism.

The day before, a meeting of the Anti-Terrorism Commission of the Irkutsk Region and the Operational Headquarters in the Irkutsk Region was held in the regional government. As part of the joint meeting, it was decided to create an expert advisory council to implement the priority directions of the region’s information policy in the field of countering terrorism and extremism under the Ministry of Physical Culture, Sports, and Youth Policy of the Irkutsk Region.
During the meeting of the anti-terrorism commission, the results of the measures being taken in the Angara region to implement the Comprehensive Plan to Counter the Ideology of Terrorism in the Russian Federation were summed up. Heads of municipalities were recommended to analyze the existing programs for the prevention of extremism and terrorism in the municipalities for their completeness and sufficiency of measures; this decision was made on the basis of reports from law enforcement agencies and representatives of the Government of the Irkutsk Region.
According to the chairman of the anti-terrorism commission, the head of the FSB Directorate of Russia for the Irkutsk Region, Mikhail Kozubov. It is necessary to involve teaching and scientific staff in the expert council and adapt all measures to prevent extremist and terrorist manifestations carried out in the region to a youth audience. The most important thing in countering such issues is explanation and the inadmissibility of such manifestations, and the promotion of tolerance using all available means and methods.
At the meeting, the participants noted the important role of the mass media in prevention matters. In addition, they said that for the fourth time now the region has been holding a regional competition for the best media materials aimed at creating thematic informational content for the prevention of extremist and terrorist manifestations, the results of which are summed up at the end of the year.
Based on materials from the press service of the Irkutsk administration.