Foreign secret services may use illegal migration to the detriment of Russia, TASS reported.

At a meeting of the section on neutralization of internal threats to the national security of the Academic Council, experts said that special services can carry out subversive activities in the country with the help of migrants. For example, illegal migration was seen as a threat to the spread of terrorist ideology.

"The experts expressed concern over the use of illegal migration by special services of foreign states to carry out subversive activities aimed at harming the security of Russia," the press service of the Security Council said.