People keep joining militant groups in N. Caucasus - NAC
MOSCOW. July 10 (Interfax) - New members continue joining militant groups active in the North Caucasus, Andrei Przhezdomsky, an advisor to the chairman of Russia's National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), said.
"The problem with the fight against terrorism today is certainly not security services' inability to defeat the militants, but the fact that new people keep joining them all the time," he said at a session of the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council in Moscow on Tuesday.
Socioeconomic, political and spiritual reasons are driving people to join militant groups, he said.
The council's session addressed the functioning of commissions that help former militants return to a peaceful life. Such commissions were formed in several North Caucasus republics in 2010.