Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered...
The president ordered the creation of a special anti-terrorism task force in the North Caucasus Federal District. Federal Security Service head Alexander Bortnikov and Russian Security Council chief Alexander Bastrykin are expected to have the group up and running by April 19.
Medvedev also ordered officials to prepare by the end of the month a proposal on a new program to combat crime and terrorist acts in the North Caucasus.
The Kremlin also said that Prosecutor General Yury Chaika, Security Council chief Alexander Bastrykin and the head of Kremlin administration, Sergei Naryshkin, had been given until May 15 to submit proposals to toughen punishments for accomplices of terrorists.
Medvedev called last week for a crackdown on people who provide any form of assistance to terrorists.
"When we are talking about such crimes, there cannot be any leniency depending on the role played," the president said on Friday. "It is not important what they do - make
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