"Naturally the atrocities we encountered in Beslan gave us the complete moral right to insist that the people who orchestrated them are a part of the terrorist internationale," Putin said during a regional summit in Kazakhstan.

"There's no point in talking to (Osama) bin Laden," he said, referring to the head of the al-Qaeda terror network. "Bin Laden has twice offered Europe negotiations and no one thinks of negotiating with him."

In the wake of the Beslan crisis, which Moscow links to separatists from Chechnya, Putin announced a major overhaul of the Russian administration this week to hand the Kremlin sweeping new powers.

The move, which will end the direct election of regional governors, replacing them with Kremlin appointees, has been criticized by Washington and the European Union.