Vestnik Kavkaza
On Wednesday, February 18, the director of the Federal Security Service of Russia, Alexander Bortnikov, flew to Washington on behalf of President Vladimir Putin. In the capital of the US the head of the FSB will lead the Russian interagency delegation at the summit to counter violent extremism. It is planned that Bortnikov share with his foreign colleagues the best of the Russian special services experiences in dealing with "foreign terrorist operatives" and offer a complete technological solution for the exchange of information about them, RIA Novosti reported.
Meanwhile, the Americans promised that the forum organized by them will not be reduced to a discussion of ways to counter the terrorist group Islamic State.
A few days ago the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution proposed by Russia on suppressing the income of the terrorists of Islamic State and other extremist organizations.Leading Researcher of the Center for International Security IMEMO and the Oriental Institute, Stanislav Ivanov, believes that "any action, any operation aimed at combating terrorism, radical Islam in the face of Islamic State and other radical Islamist groups, should be welcomed. Maybe it is rational that finally this fight will be raised in the mainstream of the UN Security Council, and it will not be in a hurry to cobble together in some kind of coalition under the auspices of the US, which are created on an unknown basis."
According to Ivanov, the activities of the coalition are ineffective: "How to deal bombing attacks in a guerrilla war, when the Islamists are covered by the local population as a human shield, when they are spread in cities, towns, villages, where there is no frontline, there is no open opposition? It is a completely different war and modern types of weapons are not suitable to conduct it. "
Russia supports the idea of expanding the geography, of expanding the number of participants in this operation, but, according to Ivanov, it is difficult to solve regional problems without the involvement of Iran. "The US stubbornly ignores Iran, until it will take the appropriate steps to eliminate its nuclear program. There is the same attitude toward Bashar Assad ... But 'IS' controls about half of the territory of Syria and one-third of the territory of Iraq. Now it acts on the territory of Libya, has a very strong position in Yemen. Indeed, this organization has become a transnational, a transcontinental organization, and only the international community by joint efforts can deal with it. With this regard, to include the states mentioned under the auspices of the UN Security Council. Then it will be a legitimate operation. There is an experience, the legal framework, two resolutions have already been adopted. One of them involves a blockade of Islamic State so that they do not receive an influx of militants from Europe and from other countries; to prohibit trade in oil, so as not to supply weapons there, to deprive them of financial sources ... Unfortunately, these resolutions do not work."
