Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin today (Oct 5, 2004) blasted "double standards" in combating international terrorism and stressed for "isolating" perpetrators of the menace at the global scale.

"International solidarity is indispensable and any double standards are inadmissible in combating terrorism. It is important to not only neutralise the terrorists, but also to put their political lobbyists and ideological inspirers into total isolation," Putin said accepting credentials from a group of foreign ambassadors.

He underscored that terrorism is destructive for all spheres of life and for all the nations, that is why it can be fought only by combined efforts of the global community.

"Historical experience shows that nobody has ever succeeded in sitting out in trenches. Any attempts to flirt with terrorism, to build selfish schemes and lines of conduct are inadmissible here," Putin was quoted as saying by Radio Mayak.

Meanwhile, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin disclosed that some Russian nationals have been nabbed for financing terrorism.

"Main thing is to cut the financing of terror, establish its perpetrators as the suicide bombers are mere instruments of terrorism," Kudrin said at a function on the sidelines of an international meet on checking the financing of terrorism in Euro-Asian region.

He said China, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan have backed the Russian idea for a Eurasian Group to counter the financing of terrorism. Earlier the G-8 and European Union had supported the idea.