Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday...

"There should be no delays or pauses [in the fight]. Various retaliatory measures should be taken fast," Medvedev told the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten shortly before his visit to the Scandinavian country due April 26-27.

The Russian leader said terrorists should be eliminated and conditions created for "life in the Caucasus to become modern, acceptable for people, for them to be able to implement their desires: both material and spiritual."

"Material means the desire to have a normal welfare and acquire normal property. Spiritual - for Muslim regions mainly - means for them to be able to normally profess Islam. This should be Islam traditional for our country and not the one they are trying to bring from abroad, often in the terrorist package," he said.

Russia has been on a higher alert after recent terrorist attacks on Moscow and the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan.

The attack on the Moscow subway occurred on March 29 as two bombs detonated during

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