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On 16 April 2009, the head of the Federal Security Service, Alexander Bortnikov, announced that Russia had ended its "anti-terror operation" in Chechnya, claiming that stability had been restored to the territory.
On 16 April 2009, the counter-terrorism operation in Chechnya was officially ended.