Russia would have been bronze medal favorites and the team most likely to upset Canada or the United States. Jonathan Nackstrand / Getty Images The NHL is back in the Olympics after a 12-year hiatus, ...

Russia has confirmed that it has blocked instant messaging app WhatsApp in the country, instead directing Russian citizens to use its state-backed Max app. The news comes days after it emerged that ...

As the 2026 Winter Olympic Games kick off with the opening ceremony, at least a dozen athletes will represent AIN. The three-letter acronym isn't an abbreviation of a country delegation — its athletes ...

On January 19, Russia’s Ministry of Finance published a report assessing the country’s federal budget execution in 2025. The document found that Russia ran a federal budget deficit equal to 2.6% of ...

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 ...

On the Tuesday, February 10, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: For the first time in over half a century, there are no nuclear arms controls in place between the world’s two largest nuclear powers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russia is banned from the 2026 Winter Olympics due to ongoing sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine. No Russian hockey players can compete, even as neutral athletes, in team events. Elite NHL players ...

The drone and missile bombardments were the latest attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure during a winter freeze, as peace talks have made little progress. By Maria Varenikova Reporting from Kyiv, ...

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 ...