February 10, 2015
On 10 February 2015 the CIS Anti-Terrorism Center conducted an International Conference on Informational Counteraction to Terrorism and Extremism in Contemporary Conditions which was held within the framework of the XX Forum "Security and Safety Technologies" in Moscow.
Representatives of the CIS state government bodies, international organizations (CSTO, RATS-SCO, CARICC), academia, mass media and specialized manufacturers and institutes took part in the conference.
The Conference's participants discussed legal regulation of activity of state government bodies in preventing posting of extremist and terrorist content in the Internet space and first of all in social networks; organization of work to identify, prevent posting and distribution of extremist and terrorist content in the information-communication space. Special focus was on algorithms of cooperation of the security agencies, special services, law-enforcement agencies as well as civil society in the sphere of informational counteraction to terrorism and extremism ideology.
The experts - participants of the Conference stated that the ideology of violence had become the base for activity of numerous organizations and certain countries exercising nationalistic, fascist, religious-extremist views and teachings. At that terrorism and extremism turn into the main form of attaining objectives of the destructive forces. Today the terrorist and extremist methods of pressure win popularity though their extensive propaganda in mass media and social networks. Recruitment of individuals to terrorist and extremist organizations as well as their financing are carried out with use of modern information-communication means. The modern information-communication means become the tools of terrorist acts, especially on key and potentially dangerous facilities, with ever increasing frequency.
As a follow-up of the conference, recommendations have been elaborated to the expert community of the Commonwealth to explore measures of informational counteraction to terrorism and extremism in the interests of the CIS member-states.
