(ROUGH CUT ONLY-NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the Boston bombings showed the need for Russia and the United States to work more closely on security matters.<br/> <br />Speaking at his annual question-and-answer session broadcast live on Russian television, Putin said that the bombings proved his policy on the restive North Caucasus region was correct.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN, SAYING:<br/> <br />"Russia itself is a victim of world terrorism, one of the first victims. It always bothered me when our Western partners, yes and your colleagues from Western mass media, called our terrorists - who committed atrocious, bloody, loathsome crimes on our country's soil - called them rebels, and almost never called them terrorists."<br/> <br />U.S. police have alleged that two ethnically Chechen brothers planted and detonated two pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, killing three peo
