Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to continue to fight against terrorists and destroy them following two recent bombings in the southern city of Volgograd. Putin said on Tuesday that the explosions represented inhumane attacks and warned that Moscow would “fiercely and consistently continue the fight against terrorists until their complete annihilation,” the Interfax news agency reported. The... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin criticised sports officials on Tuesday for attracting sportsmen from abroad instead of grooming homegrown champions. “Looking at our teams, one cannot immediately understand whether those are ours, or a team from Africa,” he said. “The result is well known. There is no one to play in our national teams,” he told a meeting of Russia’s Sports...