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Medvedev underlined that "criminal attacks in Ingushetia, Dagestan and Chechnya show that terrorism is the main threat for society."
The president said security forces would "continue systematic work to neutralize criminal groups, their leaders and people who carry out terrorist attacks." Medvedev added that terrorism had to be fought by the authorities and society together.
The mainly Muslim regions in Russia"s North Caucasus were plagued by violence last year, with almost daily attacks on security forces and officials.
Deputy Interior Minister Arkady Yedelev said on January 16 that 235 police officers and interior troops died in the region in 2009, with 686 injured as recorded terrorist acts, including suicide bombings, rose sharply.
Following a January 6 suicide bomb attack on a police compound in Dagestan that killed five and wounded up to 19 people, Medvedev ordered the Federal Security Service to tighten security across the North Caucasus.