Russia

The Russian city of Kazan and Guadalajara in Mexico have been confirmed as the hosts of future editions of the FINA World Championships, the biggest event on the international swimming calendar.

Superleague Formula’s bid to race at the new Smolensk Ring in Russia this September has been put on hold after the circuit’s directors admitted that the venue would not be ready to stage an international event before 2012.

Computer software giant Microsoft has been unveiled as an official supplier of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia.

The 2016 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championship will take place in the Russian cities of St Petersburg and Moscow, the sport’s global governing body has confirmed.

Sochi, the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics, has expressed an interest in staging the International Forum on Sport, Peace and Development in 2013.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak has claimed that all construction work ahead of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics will be completed by the end of 2012.

Women ski jumpers yesterday won the right to compete in the Winter Olympics after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced the sport as one of six new events on the Sochi 2014 Games programme.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has called on the Russian Football Union (RFU) to act on the violence and ethnic tension that exists amongst the nation’s football supporters ahead of its staging of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Russia’s increasingly prominent status as a sports host has increased the competition to sign up commercial partners for events such as the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, the head of the organising committee has admitted.

The 2011 Modern Pentathlon Senior World Championships are to be held in Moscow after the event was withdrawn from Cairo following the recent political instability in Egypt.

The organising committee for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics has ended a positive week by unveiling professional services and accountancy giant PwC as a partner of the Games.

The Russian capital of Moscow has been confirmed as the host of this year’s World Figure Skating Championships after the Japan Skating Federation was forced to give up Tokyo’s staging rights in the wake of the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami earlier this month.

Construction work ahead of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics is going “according to plan”, according to International Olympic Committee (IOC) inspectors, with aspects of the preparations proceeding at a “very impressive” rate.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) co-ordination commission has returned to Russia for its fifth inspection visit to Sochi ahead of the 2014 Winter Games.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will head up the supervisory board for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, it was confirmed on Friday.

Dmitry Chernyshenko, the CEO of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, has been presented with a special award named in honour of former International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch at the Global Sports Forum Trophy Ceremony in Barcelona.