A teenager has been arrested on charges of plotting a terrorist attack in Nalchik.
A 16-year-old resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, accused of plotting an attack on police officers in Nalchik on behalf of a representative of a terrorist organization, has been taken into custody.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," in September 2025, investigators reported the detention and arrest of a teenager born in 2008, whom security forces believe to be the second participant in the attack on a traffic police unit in Nalchik.
The attack on the police officers occurred on July 4, 2025, when a traffic police unit stopped a taxi that ran a red light. A young man jumped out of the car with a knife in his hand and attacked one of the officers. The 27-year-old police lieutenant received approximately 12 stab wounds. Sources reported that one attacker was shot and killed, and the second escaped. This attack on security forces was the first armed incident in Kabardino-Balkaria in almost 15 months. The previous incident occurred in April 2024.
The FSB reported on the prevention of a terrorist attack in Kabardino-Balkaria today on its website.
According to the special services, a resident of the republic, born in 2009, was plotting an assassination attempt on employees The Nalchik police were instructed by "handlers" of a terrorist organization via an online messenger, the publication states.
The case is being investigated under Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Russian Criminal Code (participation in the activities of a terrorist organization) and Part 3 of Article 30 and Part 2 of Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code (preparation for a terrorist attack). A 16-year-old local resident has been charged and taken into custody, the republic's Investigative Committee reported today on its website.
He was preparing to commit a terrorist act using an explosive device and firearms.
"According to investigators, in October 2025, the teenager, sharing the goals and objectives of an international terrorist organization, whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation, recorded a video message addressed to its leaders and joined the organization. Subsequently, through correspondence on one of the messengers, acting on the instructions of his supervisor, he prepared to commit a terrorist act using an explosive device and firearms against police officers in the city of Nalchik. For these purposes, he acquired the necessary components to manufacture an explosive device," the publication states.
Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for from 10 to 20 years' imprisonment, Part 2 of Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code – from 12 to 20 years' imprisonment.
As a reminder, following the attack on the traffic police unit in Nalchik, district heads in Kabardino-Balkaria reported on meetings calling on imams and village heads to counter the spread of radical ideologies. The republic's mufti called the attack a "malicious provocation" against Islam.
The circumstances of the attack on security forces in Nalchik remain unclear, but the mere presence of residents of the republic willing to use weapons does not indicate a rise in radical sentiments in Kabardino-Balkaria, analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" noted.
"Caucasian Knot" also wrote about criminal cases opened in 2025 against teenagers in other regions of southern Russia. Thus, on October 19, it was reported that an 11th-grade student from a school in the Dagestani village of Khuchni was arrested on suspicion of participating in a terrorist organization. The student's relatives believed him to be the victim of a provocation.
The investigation's version raises doubts, analysts agreed. "The increasing number of cases of prosecution of teenagers on terrorist charges, including in Dagestan, are, in my opinion, part of an anti-people, criminally ordered policy by Russia's enemies who have infiltrated Russia's state authorities," said Amir Kolov, a colonel in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and a candidate of legal sciences.
After we repeated our oath, he said we had taken the oath.
On May 19, 2025, nine people were arrested in Stavropol, including eight teenagers, suspected of plotting attacks on police officers. Some of the detainees told security forces that they had sworn an oath to a terrorist organization without understanding the meaning of it. "He came up to me and my brother and said, 'You must repeat after me.' We repeated after him, and after we repeated, he said that we had taken the oath," one of the teenagers said.
Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/420010
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