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Rio Olympics: Mudranov gives Russia a perfect start as American teenager Thrasher shoots to first gold

Beslan Mudranov gave Russia something to cheer about following a scandal-plagued build up to the 2016 Rio Games.

07/08/2016

Sport

Russia's Morozov cleared to swim at Rio Games

Russian swimmer Vladimir Morozov has been cleared to Swim at the Rio Olympics after winning his appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

06/08/2016

Russia

Anthrax outbreak in Siberia

An outbreak of anthrax in Siberia has been blamed on a heatwave melting infected reindeer carcasses that were frozen in the tundra inside the Arctic Circle.

02/08/2016

Russia

Russian opposition figure Navalny spared time behind bars

Prominent opposition figure Alexei Navalny has avoided time in prison after prosecutors claimed that he had violated the terms of a his suspended sentence.

01/08/2016

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Russia: Navy Day parade

Russia’s President Putin has attended the Navy Day parade in St Petersburg.

01/08/2016

Russia

Abkhaz writer Fazil Iskander dies, aged 87

Abkhaz writer Fazil Iskander has died at the age of 87, his family has confirmed.

31/07/2016

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Russia: 2016 world military parachuting championships

The 40th world military parachuting championships have concluded outside Moscow, Russia.

30/07/2016

Economy

Russian key interest rate unchanged

Russia's central bank has kept it key interest rate unchanged at 10.5 percent even as inflation falls.

29/07/2016

Russia

Moscow airport workers plead guilty over Total CEO's fatal jet crash

Two Moscow airport workers plead guilty to causing the jet crash that killed Total's CEO Christophe de Margerie in 2014.

28/07/2016

Sport

Threadbare Russian Olympic team en route to Rio

A threadbare Russian Olympic team gathered at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport to board a flight to Rio.

28/07/2016

Russia

Exclusion of Russian athletes from Rio is 'discrimination', says Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the exclusion of some Russian athletes from the Rio Olympics is "discrimination".

27/07/2016

World

'Cheats welcome at Olympics' after IOC Russia doping decision

Russian athletes have started to arrive in Rio ready to compete at the Olympic Games that start on August 5.

26/07/2016

Sport

Seven more Russians banned from Rio Olympics

Seven more Russian athletes were banned from competing at the Rio Olympics on Tuesday after being implicated in the damning World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) report into state-sponsored doping and cover

26/07/2016

Russia

Russia's participation in the Olympic Games in Rio: a presumption of innocence or collective punishment?

The International Olympic Committee’s decision not to enforce a blanket ban on all Russian competitors from going to the Rio Games could lead to “lesser protection for clean athletes”, according to th

25/07/2016

Russia

Moscow court begins hearings in Nemtsov case

Moscow’s military court has started preliminary hearings in the case of slain Russian opposition leader and Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov.

25/07/2016

Russia

Russia welcomes IOC decision against blanket ban on Rio athletes

The Kremlin says it welcomes the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) ruling against a blanket ban on Russian athletes at the next month’s Olympics.

25/07/2016

Russia

Russian teams arrive in Rio, IOC criticised

“Doping issues, we have nothing, we have never had this issue, never in our life.

25/07/2016

Russia

Russia welcomes IOC decision as "objective"

Moscow has welcomed the decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) saying it was grateful that it had not imposed a complete ban on Russia competing at the Rio…

25/07/2016

Russia

Moscow 'grateful' for IOC decision not to impose blanket ban on Russian athletes in Rio

Russia’s Sport Minister Vitaly Mutko has said he is ‘grateful’ to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for not imposing a blanket ban on Russia competing at the Rio…

24/07/2016

Russia

Russia escapes blanket ban from Rio Olympics

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has opted not to impose a blanket ban on Russia for next month’s Rio Olympics amid the scandal over state-sponsored…

24/07/2016

World

IOC rule against Olympic blanket ban for Russia

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Sunday it will not impose a blanket ban on Russia for next month’s Rio Olympics.

24/07/2016

Sport

Court upholds IAAF ban on Russian athletes from competing in Rio

The ban on Russian track and field athletes taking part in the Rio Olympics is set to stand after the Court of Arbitration for Sport threw out an appeal by 68 Russian athletes.

21/07/2016

Sport

Zhukov downplays possible boycott with Russia's participation in Rio Olympics in the balance

The head of Russia's Olympic Committee says he expects a final decision by Sunday on whether the entire team will be banned from Rio over allegations of state-sponsored doping.

20/07/2016

Russia

IOC to "explore legal option" of banning Russia from Rio Olympics

The International Olympic Committee says it will take legal advice on the possibility of banning Russia from next month’s Rio Games over doping.

19/07/2016

Russia

Russia's long running doping saga

The findings of Richard McLaren, the Canadian law professor and head of the independent commission set up by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to investigate allegations of systematic cheating in Ru

19/07/2016

Russia

Putin says claims of Russian doping 'political'

Vladimir Putin said the latest report on doping among Russian athletes lacked substance and was highly political.

18/07/2016