Putin tells FSB intelligence agents to hunt down ‘traitors’ 

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Russian intelligence officials must hunt down “traitors” and punish them, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.

“When I said about these traitors, I ask you, as it has always happened in our history, to not forget who they are, to identify them name by name,” Putin said in an address to the Federal Security Service, or FSB, the successor agency to the KGB. “We will punish them without time limitations, wherever they may be.”

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