Adygea

Eighteen-year-old detained in Adygea on suspicion of planning attack on church

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has said it has prevented a terrorist attack on an Orthodox church in the North Caucasian Republic of Adygea. On 11 July, the FSB announced that they had detained an 18-year-old from a Central Asian country who was a member of an ‘international terrorist organisation’.  Russian state news agency TASS cited the FSB as saying that the detainee had been preparing an attack on an Orthodox church in the capital of Adygea, Maykop, with the intention of ki