Director Alexander Bortnikov

Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) director Alexander Bortnikov has called Wednesday for joining efforts of special services to counter the growing threat from the so-called Islamic State (IS), better known as Daesh, terrorist organization, according to Tass News Agency.

"I think that the current situation requires operational and decisive action within the framework of joint strategy that envisages physical, informational and ideological suppression of terrorist movement," Bortnikov told the XIV Meeting of heads of special services, security services and law enforcement agencies that opened in Russia’s Yaroslavl today.

UN Counter-Terrorism Committee should coordinate measures of countering the ideology of terrorism and developing common approaches at the level of separate countries and in the framework of international cooperation, FSB director stressed.