The Commonwealth of Independent States
Anti – Terrorism Center

REMARKS OF THE HEAD OF CIS ATC COLONEL GENERAL OF POLICE ANDREY NOVIKOV AT THE OPENNG OF THE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH-TO-PRACTICE CONFERENCE ON “GEOPOLITICAL PICTURE OF THE WORLD: THREATS AND CHALLENGES” (MOSCOW, MSLU, 9 NOVEMBER 2020)

Dear participants of the conference,

I welcome you at the opening of the International Research-To-Practice Conference “Geopolitical picture of the World: Threat and Challenges” which has been organized by the Moscow State Linguistic University and the CIS Anti-Terrorism Center this year.

The agenda covers the burning issues of safe existence and sustainable development of the entire humanity.

International terrorism is those issues. Being a multifold destructive social-political phenomenon, the contemporary terrorism has turned to be a large-scale threat to security of the entire world community.

Terrorist crimes committed in the CIS states, Europe, Central-Asian region and Middle East, African countries remain a serious factor destabilizing public security.

Escalating of terrorist threats is driven by a number of external and internal factors leading to increase of radicali