MOSCOW. Nov 24 (Interfax-AVN) - High-tanking officials of the Interior Ministry Force started an anti-terrorist training session in Moscow on Wednesday, Colonel Vasily Panchenkov, chief of the force's press service, told Interfax-Military News Agency.
Most of the classes that the officials are to attend will be devoted to practicing an algorithm of military units' actions against armed militant gangs and terrorist teams, Panchenkov said.
"An exercise will be held in the framework of the training session at the training center of an operations-purpose division stationed in the Balashikha district. It will be aimed at practicing actions in the framework of a special operation against a large armed gang that has captured a locality," he said.
The training session is supervised by Interior Ministry Forces Commander Nikolai Rogozhkin. It involves law-enforcement officials from several CIS nations, such as Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.
The training session will finish in an expanded session of the Interior Ministry Force council, where Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev and Rogozhkin will sum up results of the forces' service and combat activity in 2004, Panchenkov said.