MOSCOW. Feb 12 (Interfax) - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev considers terrorism the main threat to contemporary world order and admits that mankind has not found a way to manage it yet.
"Today it's impossible to feel safe in any country anywhere in the world. This means that terrorism has really become globalized, turning from a criminal activity with certain objectives, including those of an extremist nature, into something special, if you will," Medvedev said in an interview with Handelsblatt, the German newspaper, before setting off for the Munich Security Conference.
He said that "today terrorists consider themselves a real power in a number of countries and they govern a country with the help of terrorist methods: 'If you don't take it, you'll be beheaded; if you don't like it, we'll cut you into pieces'." "But in the name of what? Either in the name of some religious dogmas, or simply because 'We believe that it's right'," Medvedev said.
Medvedev said that "this is the main and major threat that, one must admit, contemporary mankind has failed to manage."
Medvedev recalled his impressions from the first trip to Israel back in early 1990s, when he had not yet been in politics.
"We just went to see what this country looked like. But when everybody walks under arms, warning: 'You bear it in mind: there may be an explosion at any moment', it left us painfully impressed. I then thought to myself: 'Living under such conditions! All of them are just heroes out there!' Unfortunately, now it can be said about the whole of Europe," Medvedev said.