Russia`s Medvedev to take part in World Economic Forum in Davos.

MOSCOW, January 5 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
issued a confirmation Tuesday night that he will take part in the World
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, from January 26 to January 30, the
Kremlin press service said.
Tuesday, Medvedev had a telephone conversation with Israeli President
Shimon Peres. The two countries' leaders agreed to have talks on the
sidelines of the Davos forum.
They had to relocate their talks to Davos, as a strike by Israeli
diplomats had impeded normal preparations for Medvedev's scheduled visit
to Israel. A high-rank official at the ministry told Itar-Tass the strike
has an exceptionally economic underpinning and is in no way directed
against the interests of any foreign country.
"We're sorry that this important visit, the preparations for which
took so much time, has been disrupted," said Yaakov Livne, the chief of
Eurasia I department that embraces the Russian Federation, Ukraine and
Belarus.
Medvedev's aide Arkady Dvorkovich said earlier Medvedev would address
the Davos forum's first plenary session January 26. "The Russian President
will be the main speaker at that session," he said.
In his report, Medvedev will make accent on the Russian economy's
modernization and on cooperation with foreign partners.
According to Dvorkovich, Medvedev, who is going to make a three-day
visit to Davos where he will attend roundtable meetings and will have
talks with CEO's of foreign corporations.
"In all probability, the President will have a meeting with Young
Global Leaders," he said.
Leaders of a number of other countries are expected in Davos, too, and
Kremlin officials do not rule out a possibility of bilateral meetings with
them either.

.Int'l terrorist grouping eliminated in eastern Tajikistan.

DUSHANBE, January 5 (Itar-Tass) - Tajikistan's security forces have
eliminated an armed terrorist grouping that reported to the field
commander Alobiddin Davlatov, a man with close links to Al Qaida,
Itar-Tass was told Wednesday by Tahir Normatov, the chief of staff of the
Interior Ministry.
The grouping that operated in the east of the country was destroyed in
the course of a special operation.
"The leader of the grouping himself and seven of his accomplices have
been destroyed," Gen Normatov said. "All of them have been involved in
shooting Tajikistani military and in other heinous crimes. Some of the
militants have been detained."
September 19, 2010, the terrorists attacked a column of government
troops in the Rasht region in the Pamir foothills. They killed 28 soldiers
and officers almost pointblank.
Now, according to the Interior Ministry's data, the operation that
started out as of September 22 is practically over.
"The only man to be detained yet is Abndullo Rakhimov going under the
nickname of 'mullah Abdullah", the ideological inspirer of the
terrorists," Gen Normatov said.
Eastern districts of Tajikistan were broadly viewed as the epicenter
of armed resistance to the government on the part of the Armed Islamic
oppositionists. As the civil was in this country came to an end in 1997
and the parties to the conflict signed a General Agreement on Peace in
Moscow in June 1997, some detachments of the militants refused to
recognize their defeat and took hiding in the mountains instead to
continue armed struggle with the pro-government forces.
In the course of an amassed operation in the summer of 2009 when army
units threw their shoulder into the antiterrorist efforts, the underground
terrorist quarters were dealt a severe blow.
More than twenty militants were killed and several dozens of
militants, including a few foreign mercenaries were taken prisoner and
sentenced to long jail terms up to the life ones.
The government forces resumed the special operation against the
remainders of armed groupings supported by Al-Qaida in September 2010. The
mopping up efforts helped track the militants' bases, as well as caches
with armaments and ammunitions.
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