While most of the international hockey superpowers will be competing in Italy for the 2026 Olympics, there will be one notable absence. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) upheld sanctions that ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The U.S. has given Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to reach a deal to end the nearly four‑year war, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters, as Russian strikes on energy ...

Russia’s status at the Olympics in recent years has been complicated, to say the least. Following the revelation that numerous athletes were involved in a state-sponsored doping scheme, in 2018 in ...

KYIV — Days after negotiations to halt Russia’s war in Ukraine ended inconclusively in Abu Dhabi, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia and the United States were discussing ...

WASHINGTON — While nearly 100 countries are represented at the 2026 Olympics, a few notable countries won't be participating. It's a familiar sight for Olympics watchers: Russian and Belarusian ...

A Russian general with a crucial role in the country’s intelligence services is in a hospital after being shot by an unknown assailant at an apartment block in Moscow, the country’s investigative ...

For nearly a decade, Russian athletes have been prohibited from competing under the nation's name or flag at the Olympics, and that will be the case once again at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics. In ...

Viewers of the 2026 Winter Olympics will not see Russian or Belarusian flags as both countries' Olympic teams remain under sanctions imposed due to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. That does not mean, ...

A top Russian military intelligence general was shot in a Moscow apartment building Friday and hospitalized, the Kremlin said, depicting it as an assassination attempt orchestrated by Ukraine. There ...

Russian figure skater Adeliia Petrosian has landed triple axels and quadruple jumps in competition and she just might land on the medal podium at the 2026 Olympics. At which point, one of the more ...

A top general in Russia's GRU, its military intelligence agency, was shot several times at a residential building in Moscow on Friday morning in an attempted assassination. Lieutenant General Vladimir ...