Moscow/Agency Caucasus – Despite the well-known fact that Russian intelligence has seriously reduced the likelihood of growing stability in the North Caucasus, Russia’s President Dimitri Medvedev has assigned the Federal Security Service, or FSB, which is the main domestic security service of the Russian Federation, a larger role to play in the region.
President Medvedev ordered senior officials of the FSB to place more emphasis on the North Caucasus from now on.
When he spoke during a meeting on January 29 with the FSB officials to revise the past events of security and intelligence that occured in 2008, he expressed concern that "acts of terrorism have remained worryingly a thing of deep concern for people in the North Caucasus, although there are less of them nowadays across the Federation of Russia."
Medvedev afterwards pressed for prompt, consolidated intelligence action against acts of terrorism.
Speaking of his trip last week to Ingushetiya, Medvedev noted that all the sub-branches of intelligence must work in full co-ordination, because "this is what the Committee of Anti-terrorism, where the FSB plays a crucial role, is directly assigned to do."
The meeting ended with remarks that illegal acts had now fewer financial supports and most of such future illegal acts had already been prevented in advance from growing to become part of a larger underground network.
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