Two children have been questioned by police over online posts that have been viewed as “justifying terrorism”, local authorities and Russian media have said.
The children – aged nine and 16 – were among six people to be taken in by officers since the deadly Moscow concert attack last week.
Police in Siberia brought in the nine-year-old girl for questioning after she allegedly asked a woman online to kill people for money, a local branch of Russia’s interior ministry said.
“Hello, will you kill people for 500,000 roubles [$5,400]?” the girl wrote, according to the interior ministry branch in Tuva, which borders Mongolia.
The girl then frantically apologised after the woman threatened to “get the FSB involved”.
During her interrogation, the child said she wrote the messages “out of boredom”, according to the interior ministry.
Her mother has since been charged with improper upbringing of a child, and the girl has been placed on a list that allows authorities to monitor her activities as a counterterrorism measure.
Separately, a 16-year-old boy was detained in another city in Tuva after calling online for “illegal actions” at a cinema, local media reported.
They said the boy told authorities he “wanted to joke and scare people”.
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