President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian security agencies to act
more harshly to fend off foreign attempts to destabilize the restive
North Caucasus region ahead of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.
Addressing Monday's meeting of the presidential Security Council, Putin
said unspecified "foreign countries and public and international
organizations under their control keep seeing the North Caucasus as a
foothold for destabilizing Russia as a whole."
He urged Russian security agencies to "act more harshly to thwart such attempts."
Putin added that "neutralizing the terrorist and criminal threats is
particularly important in connection with the 2014 Winter Olympics in
Sochi."
The North Caucasus region has been engulfed by an Islamist insurgency following two separatist wars in Chechnya.
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