Top Russia Court to rule the Taliban terror designation
Shifting attitude The decision to remove the label will not be for formal recognition for the Taliban authorities, seeking international validity.
But this will help avoid embarrassment for representatives of the meeting of representatives of terrorist groups at high-profile events.
Moscow’s attitude towards the Taliban has moved to a large extent in the last two decades.
The group was formed in 1994 during the Afghan Civil War, which was out of a large -scale Mujahideen fighters, who were struggling with the Soviet Union during the 1980s.
The Soviet-Afghan War, which killed thousands of young Soviet people, resulted in a stinging defeat for Moscow that accelerated the death of the USSR.
In 2003, Moscow placed the Taliban on its terrorist blacklist at his support for separatists in the North Caucasus.
But the Taliban’s return to power in 2021 forced Russia and other countries to compete for impact to the region.
Russia was the first country to open a business representative office in Kabul after Taliban acquisition, and has announced a plan to use Afghanistan as a transit center for gas title in Southeast Asia.
In July 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the Taliban “a partner in the fight against terrorism”.
Both Russia and Taliban officials are trying to eradicate the Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K), an Islamic Group responsible for the deadly attacks in both Afghanistan and Russia, including an attack in the Moscow Concert Hall in March 2024 that killed 145.
Other countries have also sought to promote relations with Taliban authorities, although no state has yet officially gone to identify them.
Kazakhstan announced last year that it had removed the Taliban from the list of “terrorist organizations”.
In 2023, China became the first country to appoint a new ambassador in Kabul and has made growing economic relations with its new rulers.
