Report / Taliban no more on Russian terror list: what’s Kremlin seeking?
Just until last week, any member of the Taliban who entered Russia should have been arrested according to the Russian laws and could face up to 20 years in jail on charges of terrorism. However, since 2016 no member of the Taliban was arrested upon arrival in Russia and the Taliban officials over the past years, both before seizing the power in Kabul and after it, traveled to Russia several times. Just recently, the same law that blacklisted the Taliban in Russia as a terror group was revoked as the Russian Supreme Court last week removed the Taliban from the country's terror blacklist. T