Terrorists Try to Recruit Specialists at CIS Universities - Anti-Terror Center

Terrorists are making attempts to recruit future medical, media, oil industry and other specialists at the universities of the Commonwealth of Independent Nations (CIS), which is comprised of nine nations including Russia, the head of the CIS Anti-Terrorist Center said Wednesday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Andrei Novikov added that the CIS Anti-Terrorist Center supports the project proposed in the beginning of October in Kyrgyzstan, a CIS member state, and outlining ideas for creating the anti-extremist environment based on common values in the universities.

"The attempts to recruit [students] to the international terrorist organizations continue at the universities of the Commonwealth [of Independent States]. The professional recruiters are targeting not only potential lower level agents, but also highly qualified medicine, transport, oil industry linguistics, specialists and, importantly, those who could map out media strategies for the global terrorism projects," Novikov said.

Novikov also said that the universities were working closely with students, their parents and professors to explain the dangers of such recruiting efforts.

The Commonwealth of Independent Nations, founded in 1991, includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan.