"Society expects the government to let it feel safe," he stressed.
According to Mr. Mironov, public and religious organizations and parties, which lost the parliamentary elections (Yabloko and the Union of Right Forces), are taking part in the roundtable.
"The parliamentary parties have enough work to do in the State Duma. The Duma and the Federation Council have already proposed legislative anti-terrorist measures and now civil society has to say something in the matter," the speaker noted.
In his words, participants in the roundtable discussion are to solve three groups of problems: how to coordinate anti-terrorism and anti-corruption efforts by political, public and religious organizations; how to maintain effective public control over counter-terrorist activities of the authorities; and how to create a legal basis of anti-terrorism.
On his part, pediatrician Leonid Roshal, member of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, said that the state financing of the health care sphere cannot fully provide for treatment and diagnostics of terrorism victims across Russia.
"At peacetime it is difficult to render proper assistance to the victims but this problem is as important as terrorism prevention," he said.
According to Dr. Roshal, until Islam does con condemn the murder of innocent people, it will be difficult to combat terrorism.
Deputy head of the external church relations department of the Russian Orthodox Church Vsevolod Chaplin also pointed out the importance of the religious factor of terrorism.
"Usually we neglect this factor but it does exist," he said. "It is sad that we remembered the religious factor and religion's role in counter-terrorism only when the disaster had come," Vsevolod Chaplin stressed.
In his words, it is necessary to eradicate religious illiteracy to fight against terrorism. "A religious vacuum is dangerous because extremist ideas can be easily introduced into it," he added.
