How to avoid terrorist attacks: technical and political measures

The police established the identity of 14 people killed in the explosion in the metro of St. Petersburg. The parents of the 22-year-old native of Kyrgyzstan, a resident of the northern capital, Akbarzhon Jalilov, identified his son, who is a St. Petersburg subway bombing suspect. Now the investigators are checking Jalilov's connections, including possible contacts with the ISIS terrorist group, which is banned in Russia.

Speaking about measures for preventing recurrence of such terrorist attacks, a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, First Deputy Chairman of the Public Safety Commission and the Public Supervisory Commission, Dmitry Chugunov said: "We have problems with both metal detectors and people. People and their service dogs get tired. They cannot be focused on the huge flow of people all the time. The human factor always leads to fails. The special services and doctors are developing a system that allows to scan and understand the heartbeat of a person, how nervous he is and his behavior according to the algorithm - correct or incorrect. Then we can talk about checking only suspicious people. A huge amount of man-hours would not be necessary for this purpose.

Dmitry Chugunov

The expert urged to carry out measures for gradual upgrading: "If you put 10 thousand people near each entrance to the subway, this will only cause additional panic. You should not be stressed all the time. On the contrary, it is necessary to let people know that everything is under control; replace the existing obsolete metal detectors with new ones; give the FSB and other special services time to calmly work out the existing information, find those criminals and punish them".

State Duma deputy Yevgeny Fedorov, proposing measures to prevent terrorist attacks, suggests thinking globally in political terms: "We must solve the problems which were posed 10 years ago in the Munich speech [of Vladimir Putin]. It is necessary to finish the elimination of the unipolar world. Because it is a source of constant terrorist threats. In fact, these are terrorist-punitive operations ... This is the accompanying mechanism of "orange" interventions ... When the process of eliminating the unipolar world is over, a multipolar world will be built on the basis of a mutual security system and a mutual system of equality. Therefore, this issue must be forced".

Yevgeny Fedorov

The MP explained that speaking of a unipolar world, he has in mind the next thing: "This is not somewhere in Washington, but here in Russia, its downside. This is a problem which is constantly set by the president. This is a matter of sovereignty, we must complete the process of restoring sovereignty. In economics, these are de-ofshorization, changes in economic policy, the May decrees and everything else. In politics, it is what the head of the Investigative Committee Bastrykin sayd - it is impossible to solve the problems of national policy and a national vertical of authority without constitutional reforms. We must turn this energy, this indignation inward, supporting Putin's reforms".

Meanwhile, the US, China, the EU, the UK, the fraternal peoples of the CIS, Ukraine, Georgia, Lithuania, Estonia, India, Iran, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Israel, the UN Secretary General, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, the chairman of the European Council Donald Tusk, PACE President, the Secretary General of NATO, the Chairman of the European Commission and the OSCE chairman express their solidarity over the St. Petersburg tragedy.