Russia

Football
Events

Fifa, football’s global governing body, has announced today (Wednesday) that it has received bids from Russia, Chile and El Salvador to host its Beach Soccer World Cup in 2021.
Football
Events

European football’s governing body Uefa is reportedly set to approve St. Petersburg, Munich and London as hosts of the three Champions League finals spanning the 2020-21 to 2022-23 seasons.
Swimming
Events

Fina, the global governing body of aquatic sports, has opted to return its 2025 and 2027 World Championships and World Masters Championships to Kazan and Budapest, a decade on from when the events were…
Governance

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has upheld an appeal from Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko against a lifetime ban imposed by the International Olympic Committee from participating in the Olympic…
Governance

The World Anti-Doping Agency has provided international federations (IFs) with its first batch of data relating to its Russian investigation
Events

The International University Sports Federation (FISU) has today (Tuesday) confirmed that the Russian city of Ekaterinburg will stage its 2023 summer Universiade
Ice Hockey
Events

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has awarded hosting rights for its World Championships between 2023 and 2025
Football
Governance

Alexander Dyukov, chief executive of Gazprom Neft, has pledged to improve the financial fortunes of Russian football after being elected as the new president of the sport’s national governing body.
Para Sport
Governance

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has today (Friday) announced that it will conditionally lift the suspension of the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) after conceding that it needs to move…
Athletics

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has handed out sanctions to 12 Russian athletes utilising evidence that a “systemic” state-backing doping scheme was operated for a number of years.

Russia is set to submit a bid for the 2023 edition of the European Games multi-sport event, with Kazan being lined up as a host city
Multi-sport

The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has ruled that the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada) remains compliant despite missing a December 31 deadline to provide data from the Moscow laboratory implicated…

The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has announced it has successfully received the data from the Moscow laboratory implicated in the Russian doping scandal, stating the news is a “major breakthrough” for…
Football
Governance

Vitaly Mutko, who was banned from the Olympics for life because of the country’s doping scandals, has resigned as president of the Russian Football Union.
Athletics
Events

The International Association of Athletics Federations has today (Tuesday) awarded its 2023 World Championships to Budapest, while opting to retain its suspension of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF)
Football

The organisers of the 2018 Fifa World Cup have claimed that the tournament added more than $14bn (€12.2bn) to the Russian economy.
Golf
Media

International media company Discovery and US golf organisation the PGA Tour have today (Monday) unveiled the new platform that will be used to harness the wide-ranging partnership the two entities struck…
Football
Other

European football’s governing body Uefa has today (Thursday) hit Russian Premier League club Rubin Kazan with a one-season ban from European competition for breaching the terms of a settlement agreement i…