Moscow, March 18, 2016. The Interior Minister RF Vladimir Kolokoltsev, speaking at the expanded board of the Ministry, noted the great contribution of Interior Ministry servicemen to the decrease in activity of militant’ gangs operating in the Northern Caucasus.

"First, I would like to mention the activity of the Interior troops in counterterrorism operations on the territory of the North Caucasian Federal District", - Kolokoltsev said. "Largely due to the efforts of Interior Ministry troops, their everyday selfless death-defying labor, in recent years they managed to drastically reduce the activity of armed groups and to stabilize the region", - TASS quotes the head of the Russian Interior Ministry.