The World Ice Hockey Championships will be held in Moscow from April 27th through May 13th. The top sixteen teams in the world will meet at the Khodynka Ice Palace and the Mytischi arena just north of the city.
It has been 14 years since the Russian national team last won, a bitter pill for Russian [...]

The record-breaking Russian woman pole vaulter Yelena Isunbaveva has been named the Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year. She just set her 20th pole vault world record indoors last February with a 4.91m jump in Donetsk.
She won a gold medal in Gothenburg at the European Championships where she set a Championship record of 4.80m. She [...]

The Russians are on a roll in Melbourne at the world swimming championships, especially in the synchronized swimmers have won gold in six out of seven events. Overall Russia has the most medals in the competition so far with 15 total, nine of those being gold.
Anastasia Davydova and Anastasia Ermakove teamed up to win the [...]

Russian football fans will be able to watch their favorite sport on television without having to buy a satellite dish. NTV Plus and the Russian Premier Football League have come to an agreement in which the RTR-Sport channel will carry part of the games on regular TV for no charge.
RTR is being awarded a [...]

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova is on route to defending her title at the Pacific Life Open and her number one ranking despite suffering a hamstring injury more than 4 weeks ago. She was forced to sit out in the second set of her Pan Pacific Open semifinal match against Serbian Ana Ivanovic last month [...]