Unnamed faculty members at institutes of higher education in the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic (KBR) have questioned the veracity of claims that the North Caucasus resistance is openly seeking to recruit new members among students.
Vladimir Serdyuk, who heads the KBR subsidiary of the Federal Security Service (FSB), was quoted on July 19
as saying that resistance emissaries are active in all the republic's
institutes of higher education. He offered no estimates of the number
of students they have suborned, but noted that the perpetrators of the
most audacious terrorist attacks in the KBR are all young.
Faculty members questioned by Regnum conceded the possibility that
resistance emissaries approach and seek to win over some students, but
denied that any concerted effort to do so is under way. They stressed
that there are no restrictions on students observing Islamic dress
code. But at the same time, in an implicit acknowledgement that the
resistance has become a fact of life in the KBR, they all asked not to
be identified rather than "be drawn into a dialogue with extremists."
Arsen
Kanokov, who was named KBR president in September 2005 just weeks
before dozens of young Muslim militants launched multiple attacks on
police and security facilities in Nalchik, has consistently sought to
engage the younger generation in republican politics, establishing both
a youth shadow government and a youth parliament.
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