Police Pleased With Anti-Terrorist Drills at Southern Russia Chemical Factory

Text of report by Russian website Kavkazskiy Uzel on 27 July headlined “A chemical attack by improvised terrorists has been foiled in Karachay-Cherkessia”

Anti-terrorist exercises were held at the largest chemical factory of the North Caucasus in Karachay-Cherkessia today.

The federal government has included the Cherkessk chemical factory on the list of facilities of strategic importance where the disruption and suspension of work might lead to the loss of the management of the country’s economy and pose a threat to the population.

The first deputy director-general of the Cherkessk chemical factory, Mark Lavrichenko, said today that the factory pays great attention to security issues. For this reason, the management of the chemical factory came up with an initiative for the law-enforcement agencies to hold special exercises.

An attempt to carry out imaginary acts of sabotage was successfully foiled at the Cherkessk chemical factory. The special tactical exercises tested the preparedness of forces and means to carry out service tasks in emergencies.

The law-enforcement agencies point out that the exercises showed that workers of the chemical factory are well-prepared for well- coordinated actions to prevent terrorist attacks. Engineers and workers of the enterprise made the best use of their theoretical skills.

The management of the Cherkessk chemical factory thanked the law- enforcement agencies for “the anti-terrorist exam that the Cherkessk chemists successfully passed”.

“We are also pleased that the law-enforcement agencies highly rated our security system,” top managers of the Cherkessk chemical factory said in their official statement.

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