Russian parliament commemorates victims of Volgograd blasts

Speaker of the Lower Chamber of the Russian Parliament Sergey Naryshkin and other members of the parliament have commemorated victims of the Volgograd blasts of the late 2013, ITAR-TASS reports.

Naryshkin called terrorism one of the biggest threats of the 21st century. He reminded that President Vladimir Putin had noted the need to unite within the framework of the G8 to fight terrorism together.

Russia will raise the topics of global security and the international law at plenary sessions, expert talks and meetings of G8 speakers of parliaments that will be organized in Moscow in early September.

34 people were killed and over 70 injured in a blast at the central train station of Volgograd on December 29 and another blast in a trolleybus on December 30.