VLADIMIR PUTIN vowed yesterday to “drag out of the sewer” the masterminds of the twin suicide bombing of the Moscow subway system that killed 39 people and left scores wounded.

Russia’s top intelligence and counterterrorism agency prevented terror attacks during several international summits hosted by Russia, the agency’s chief said today.

A group of victims from the 2004 Beslan school hostage seizure today rejected the death penalty for the man alleged to be the only surviving attacker, despite prosecutors’ and many other victims’ calls for him to be executed.