Russia deletes the Taliban from the list of terrorist organizations

Afghan Taliban no longer has a list of terrorist organizations on the Russian. Although they have been on it since 2003, Moscow kept in touch with them. The decision was made by the Supreme Court of Russia. Already a few years ago Putin called them allies, claiming that Russia was working on removing them from this list.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin Last year, he announced that the Taliban rulers in Kabul should be considered reliable partners since 2021, because – as he said – they made progress in the fight against the manifestations of terrorism in Afghanistan. ”

As the Reuters agency writes, Russia is threatened by Islamist groups operating in the number of countries of the region, from Afghanistan For the Middle East.

Contacts of the authorities in Moscow

The Fundamentalist Islamic group Taliban has been banned in Russia since 2003. The independent Russian -language portal Moscow Times wrote that despite this state of affairs, the authorities in Moscow remained in touch with Taliban. The Taliban were also invited to events with the participation of representatives of the Russian authorities, including the leader of Vladimir Putin.

Putin called them allies, claiming that Russia was working on removing them from the list of terrorists.

In December 2024, the lower Chamber of Parliament State pride adopted a law providing for such a possibility – added Moscow Times.

Terrorist attack

The decision of the Supreme Court of Russia, however, is not synonymous with the formal recognition of the Taliban government – emphasized the French AFP agency. It has not yet been recognized by any state, among others because of the brutal and notorious violation of women's rights, but in addition to Russia also Pakistan, China, Iran And most Central Asia countries maintain actual diplomatic relations with the Afghan regime. As the AP agency reminded, in recent years Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan have removed the Taliban from the list of terrorist groups.

According to AFP, the rapprochement between the Kremlin and Kabul accelerated after last year's March terrorist attack on the Moscow Krokus concert hall. 145 people were killed at that time, and the group was responsible for the attack Islamic State Province of Krorasan (IS-CH). Taliban claims that he fights IS-ch.

After the assassination at the Krokus concert hall, Secretary of the Security Council and former Minister of Defense Sergei Szojgu He stated that “it is necessary to enable Taliban actions to strengthen political and economic ties between Russia and Afghanistan.”

Appeals of Lavrov

In October last year, the head of Russian diplomacy Sergei Lavrov He called the West to abolish the sanctions for Afghanistan and accepting responsibility for the reconstruction of the country devastated by the decades of war.

In August 2021, the Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan in the years 1996–2001, took over power again in this country after the withdrawal of foreign troops, including Polish, under the leadership of the USA.

In addition to taking away their rights from women, the Taliban drastically limited the freedom of speech and the media, and also repeatedly detained and tortured opponents of the regime or journalists.