ULAN BATOR. Aug 26 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said he has given a number of instructions to law enforcement agencies to improve the fight against crime in the North Caucasus.
"I have given such instructions, and law enforcement agencies are currently preparing new organizational forms of countering crime in the North Caucasus, including terrorism-related crimes," Medvedev said in reply to a question from Interfax in Ulan Bator on Wednesday.
The law enforcement agencies are "drawing up regulations that could help investigators and courts to reveal criminals and bring them to justice," Medvedev said.
"We know that thugs are often caught and then released. We are a democratic state, and we should pass through this process as everyone else did. We should amend the law and let the investigators and courts to hold these people liable," Medvedev said.
"In some cases, responses should be tough and inevitable," he said.