Putin turned to the people

President Vladimir Putin addressed the people on federal television channels. First of all, he declared national mourning on September 6 and 7. In his speech, he asked to recall everyone who died at the hands of terrorists in the last days. Having called the terrorist attack in Beslan, the “direct intervention of international terror”, the president said: “We are not dealing with individual actions of intimidation, not with separate sorties of terrorists. We are dealing with the direct intervention of international terror against Russia.”

According to him, Russia faced "a total, tough, full -scale war, which again and again takes away the lives of our compatriots." At the same time, the president promised that "in the near future a set of measures aimed at strengthening the unity of the country will be developed." The Putin nation asks to “rally before the general threat” “we are obliged to create a much more effective security system, to demand from our law enforcement agencies that would be adequate to the level and scope of threats,” the president said.

According to the head of state, "it is necessary to create a new system of interaction between forces and means that monitor the situation in the Caucasus."

In circulation, Putin again recalled the collapse of the Soviet Union. According to him, after the collapse of the USSR, Russia was not protected from the West or from the East, billions of rubles will be required to create really protected borders. "Despite all the difficulties, we managed to preserve the core of this giant - the Soviet Union. And we called the new country the Russian Federation," the president said.

The creation of new, modern and really protected borders will go away for many years, billions of rubles will be required. But here we could be more effective if we acted in a timely manner and professional, ”Putin said.