Kyrgyzstan warns its citizens against being involved in extremist activities in Russia

According to the Ministry of Labor of Kyrgyzstan, the extremists are looking for recruits for their activities among Kyrgyzstanis living in Russia. The agency called for people to remain unprovoked.

As Kyrgyz authorities reported, many Kyrgyzstanis in Russia have started to receive «job offers» via social media and messengers as extremists are trying to involve them in terrorist activities in Russia. The Ministry of Labor called for people to stay calm, ignore job offers through social networks, avoid participating in any campaigns and keep an eye on their children.

«We are urging people to remember that involvement in terrorist acts can be punished by a life sentence in Russia,» the agency said in a statement.

On March 22, a group of terrorists attacked Crocus City Hall, a concert hall near Moscow. They started shooting people gathered at Crocus to watch the Russian band Picnic and then set the building on fire. According to official data, 143 concertgoers have died.

The next day, Russian law enforcement agencies detained 11 people, including four citizens of Tajikistan: Dalerjon Mirzoyev, Saidakrami Rachabalizoda, Shamsiddin Fariduni and Mukhammadsobir Faizov. Authorities also disclosed the names of other four suspects: Isroil Islomov and his sons Dilovar and Aminchon, as Dilovar is a former owner of a car the terrorists used on the day of the attack, and Alisher Kasimov, who was a Kyrgyzstani citizen until 2014. Law enforcement officials said that he leased his apartment to one of the terrorists.

According to the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations, two Kyrgyzstani women died during the terrorist attack: 24-year-old Edita Jusupova and 20-year-old Maiza Gulzhigit-kyzy. However, the Kyrgyz Ministry of Foreign Affairs hasn’t yet confirmed this information. It is waiting for the results of forensic analysis and currently considers both women as missing.