Athletes from Russia and Belarus have been banned from competing as countries in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Instead, their ...

The IOC’s executive board announced a set of criteria in March 2023 ... Their team could not be known as ‘Russia’, the ...

Russia, which previously identified as ROC for the Russian Olympic Committee, was banned by the International Olympic ...

Countries being absent from an Olympic Games is nothing new with many sidelined due to political reasons while others have ...

"It has reviewed all the athletes in accordance with the IOC Executive Board decision and the principles for participation ..

I'm Steve Gutterman, the editor of RFE/RL's Russia/Ukraine/Belarus Desk. Welcome to The Week In Russia, in which I dissect ...

Swift action to impound palatial boats became a symbol of western resolve after the invasion of Ukraine. Now the costs are ...

More than 200 countries will compete in the Paris Olympic Games this summer - but one country will be noticeably absent.

Russia, as well as the Soviet Union before it, has long sought to use international sporting spectacles as an opportunity to ...

Earlier, the IOC Executive Board did not allow Russian athletes to take part in the opening ceremony ... During the award ...

"At least eight crew members died as a result of an accident with the fishing vessel Argos Georgia, which sank off the ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine and Russia exchanged 95 prisoners ... shaven heads and wrapped in Ukrainian flags standing in ...