Mass evacuation of shopping centers, schools, universities and other administrative activities swept across Russia on September 11-12. The reason was anonymous calls about bombs and orphaned objects. In some regions law enforcers explained evacuation exercises, in other authorities claim that there is no training.
According to the publication Meduza, in the last two days, evacuation was conducted in 13 Russian regions from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to Stavropol.
Especially large was the evacuation in Perm, during which the work of nine schools, a railway station, a bus station, two shopping centers, the city administration and the municipal duma.
According to the Ura edition. Ru, local residents report large-scale car inspections on the roads of Surgut and Nefteyugansk. It is possible that the strengthening of law enforcement officers is connected with the August 19 massacre in Surgut, or with the antiterrorist exercises in the region.
The expert of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated to "AiF-Prikamye" that extensive evacuations in several cities of the country are the result of mass exercises.
In Russia, for the first time since the USSR, large-scale antiterrorist exercises are taking place, in which all agencies responsible for state security take part, the source said.. It is possible that in the near future the exercises will affect other major cities of the country.