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Azerbaijan hopes that bidding to host football’s 2020 European Championship matches will promote Baku after it was twice rejected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as a candidate city for the Olympics.
Tom Rowe has been fired as coach of Russian Kontinental Hockey League team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, the team announced Thursday.
Undefeated Russian heavyweight boxer Magomed Abdusalamov is set to square off against a new challenger in New York City’s storied Madison Square Garden arena in November.
Mikhail Prokhorov, the sports-mad Russian tycoon who owns the Brooklyn Nets basketball team and is also the president of the Russian Biathlon Union, is setting his country a target of two or three biathlon gold medals at next year's Sochi Olympics.
The southern Russian resort city on the Black Sea won the right to host
the Olympics at an IOC session in Guatemala in July 2007 after a close
race with South Korea's Pyeongchang and Austria's Salzburg. More than 200 sports and infrastructural facilities are to be built in
Sochi by the time of the 2014 Winter Games. The cost of building the
facilities and infrastructure is estimated at more than $30 billion.
Russia's Igor Andreev, a former world No. 18, announced Wednesday that this season would be his last in professional tennis.
Bayern Munich began the defense of their Champions League title in style on Tuesday with a routine 3-0 defeat of CSKA Moscow.
One of Russia's top weathermen is sticking his neck out just under six months before the Sochi Olympics start to predict appropriately wintry conditions for the Games.
In an effort to increase Russia's home advantage, the venues for next year's Winter Olympics will be open to home athletes only from November 19, the chief organizer said Monday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted on Monday that there were still some "ongoing glitches" in preparations for next year's Winter Olympics in Sochi, but he insisted that overall the job is on track.
Russia's new Olympic University in the Winter Games host city of Sochi will provide "colossal" expertise to world sport, Russian President Vladimir Putin said after the institution opened on Monday.
Ivorian forward Seydou Doumbia has been named in the CSKA Moscow squad for Tuesday's Champions League opener against Bayern Munich despite a niggling thigh injury, the Russians announced Monday.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, the world No. 32, has confirmed a two-prong attack on the Kremlin Cup in her native Russia next month, going for both the singles and doubles titles.
Anzhi Makhachkala forward Lacina Traore was on the brink of a summer move to Manchester United, his agent told Italian media on Monday.
Russian football team Terek Grozny have appealed to the country's FA to punish Zenit St. Petersburg fans who reportedly set fire to the Chechen flag during this weekend's Premier League match in the northern city.
Lokomotiv Moscow rose a place to fourth in the Russian Premier League on Sunday after a thumping header from Dmitry Tarasov gave the Railwaymen a 1-0 win over FC Kuban.
The Russian women's volleyball team has won its 18th European volleyball championships title, beating host nation Germany by three sets to one in Berlin.