Russia and the United States to cooperate more closely in dealing with terrorism, Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared.

His statement comes in the aftermath of last week’s deadly Boston Marathon bombing.

“I just call for this tragedy to be an incentive for us to become closer in tackling common threats, with terrorism being one of the most important and dangerous of them. If indeed we combine our efforts, we won’t take such hits and sustain such losses,” Putin said, as cited by RIA Novosti.

The Russian president said he had always resented it when terrorists who committed “savage, bloody, appalling crimes on Russian territory were referred to in no other way but rebels, and were seldom or never called terrorists” by Western media and politicians.

“They received aid, information support, as well as financial and political [aid]. Sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly, but they always had it for their activities on Russian territory,” Putin said. “But we have always said that we should not just make statements about it being a common threat, we should take the matter into our hands and cooperate with each other more closely.”

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