Russian news agencies said on Monday that the Supreme Court of Russia would rule the Taliban Group from the removal of the banned “terrorist” organizations next month.
Moscow has formed relations with the Taliban authorities as they seized power in Afghanistan after a chaotic return of the United States in 2021.
The TASS news agency, citing the press service of the court, said that the Supreme Court is ready to hear the Taliban status on 17 April.
The prosecutor General’s office is expected to ban the hearing behind the closed doors after issuing legal requests to do so.
President Vladimir Putin signed a law approved by Parliament in December, which legally made possible to remove the Taliban from the list.
Under the law, a court can take a decision based on the request of the prosecutor general, stating that the group has discontinued “terrorist” activity. Russia’s FSB Security Service can then remove the group.
The expected step will not be for a formal recognition of the Taliban government and what is called the “Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan”, no country has been taken yet.
Moscow has heated relations with Afghanistan – with which it has a complex history after the Soviet invasion in the 1980s – since Americans exit the country.
Members of the Taliban visited Russia at an invitation to talk on Kremlin’s Afghanistan, despite the ban, released in 2003.
Putin said in the last summer that the Taliban was a “ally” of Moscow in fighting terrorism as he was under Afghanistan’s control and was interested in its stability.
The Taliban government has been fighting against the Jihadi group, rival Islamic State in Afghanistan for years.
In 2024, IS-K claimed the responsibility of attack on the Moscow concert hall, killing more than 140 people, the deadliest terrorist attack in Russia for nearly two decades.
