Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Donald Trump on his election victory in his first public comment on the outcome of the U.S. balloting.

Two of Russia’s top swimmers who could be eligible for the next year’s Olympics have been drug tested by their country’s anti-doping agency only twice apiece in 2023.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country has successfully tested a nuclear-powered cruise missile and declared that lawmakers could revoke its ratification of a global nuclear test ban.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has hosted a meeting with his Belarusian ally, who referred to this week’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and suggested that Minsk could join Moscow’s efforts to revive an old alliance with Pyongyang.

The United States has imposed a new round of financial penalties on people and entities involved in Russia’s financial sector.

Russia’s war in Ukraine is one of the biggest considerations in the U.S. Treasury’s latest strategy document outlining how the agency plans to combat significant illicit finance threats to the U.S. financial system.

Strongmen and sports are a match made in hell, but that never bothered the International Olympic Committee before.

The International Testing Agency said Saveh-Shemshaki tested positive for an anabolic androgenic steroid.

Turkey’s president has fired the head of the Turkish Statistical Institute, which is responsible for posting official inflation statistics, among other data.

There’s nothing the least bit alpine about Beijing, no traditions of winter sports.

The Beijing Olympics are only weeks away and China has become a more problematic host than expected for an event that originally seemed destined to be staged in Europe.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow will continue providing natural gas to Serbia on terms favorable to its ally.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged the country’s arms makers to develop even more advanced hypersonic missiles and lasers to maintain the country’s edge in military technologies.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has emphasized the need to strengthen the country’s air defenses amid NATO’s military activities near Russia’s borders.

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Turkey's president says his country will seek compensation for its removal from a U.S.-led stealth fighter jet program.

Lewis Hamilton has become the first Formula One driver to win 100 races with victory in the Russian Grand Prix to retake the championship lead from Max Verstappen.

Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry says its chief has died during drills.

The NHL and international officials are now in wait-and-see mode after reaching an agreement to send players to the Beijing Olympics this winter.

A top Kremlin official says that a revised version of Russia’s national security strategy says that it may use forceful methods to respond to unfriendly actions by foreign countries.

The ruling on whether Russia can keep its name and flag for the Olympics will be announced on Thursday Dec. 17, 2020. The CAS process is formally between WADA and the Russian anti-doping agency. The Russian agency, known as Rusada, was ruled non-compliant one year ago. The International Ice Hockey Federation, which was a party to the hearing in Lausanne, could be forced to move the 2023 men's world championships from St. Petersburg. It requires Russians who pass doping scrutiny to compete at world championships as “Authorized Neutral Athletes” in non-red uniforms.

(Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)GENEVA – Russia’s status as an Olympic team, and its reputation as a serial cheater in international sports, goes on trial next week in more legal fallout from the country's state-backed doping saga. WADA would let Russian athletes compete only if not implicated in doping or cover-ups. WADA says details of doping tests and emails were deleted or changed, and false trails created to frame whistleblowers. The International Olympic Committee refused WADA’s request to ban Russia outright from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. RUSADA rejected WADA’s proposed punishment, and Russian Olympic officials later fired the RUSADA chief executive who acknowledged the wrongdoing.

SPIELBERG The first Tuscan Grand Prix in Mugello will be held on Sept. 13, and the Russian Grand Prix in Sochi two weeks later could be the first Formula One race this season with fans. The F1 season started last weekend in Austria with no fans at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg because of the coronavirus pandemic. But Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko said he hopes spectators can attend can attend the race in Sochi later this year. "It will be an important event for Russian sport.It was not immediately clear how many fans Russian authorities hope to allow inside the 55,000-capacity Sochi Autodrom. It has never staged an F1 race but has hosted F2 and MotoGP races, as well as previously being a Ferrari test track.

People enjoy the beach in the Black Sea in Odessa, Ukraine, Saturday, July 4, 2020. Tens of thousands of vacation-goers in Russia and Ukraine have descended on Black Sea beaches, paying little attention to safety measures despite levels of contagion still remaining high in both countries. (AP Photo/Sergei Poliakov)SOCHI Tens of thousands of vacation-goers in Russia and Ukraine have descended on Black Sea beaches, paying little heed to public health measures despite the numbers of reported coronavirus cases remaining high in both countries. While popular vacation destinations in Europe are still closed to visitors from Russia and Ukraine as European nations move carefully to lift restrictions on foreign visitors, Black Sea resorts in Russia and Ukraine are filled to capacity from domestic tourism. Now, Russian sun-lovers are left with the narrow pebble beaches of Sochi or Crimea as their only beach vacation options.

FC Sochi players, in white shirt, try to score against Rostov during a Russia Soccer Premier League soccer match against FC Rostov as the league was resumed after a three-month hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic in Sochi, Russia, Friday, June 19, 2020. Rostov fielded a team of teenagers because its entire first-team squad is in isolation following a suspected outbreak of coronavirus. (AP Photo)SOCHI A team of teenagers took the field for a club hit by the coronavirus pandemic and lost 10-1 as soccer in Russia restarted Friday. Sochi soon hit back and finished with 10 goals, the most in league history, mostly scored by players with Russian national-team experience. The Russian Premier League resumed Friday after more than three months, with a limited number of fans in stadiums.

Where exactly is the safe zone? The deal requires Kurdish militias to withdraw from a "safe zone," but that zone hasn't been properly defined. But Turkey says it reaches from the Euphrates River to the Iraqi border -- which would include the key Syrian Kurdish cities of Kobani and Qamishli. Apart from bitter fighting still ongoing for Ras Al Ain, Turkish forces control much of the gap between those towns. Fighting may not stop everywhereThe agreement doesn't necessarily stop fighting outside of the safe zone.