- 11:44 16/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti)
Nine countries including Russia, the United States and Canada have secured a place in the 2014 Olympic ice hockey tournament in Sochi, the International Ice Hockey Federation has confirmed.
- 17:34 04/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 4 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the country’s Audit Chamber to review bank lending to construction projects for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Audit Chamber head Sergei Stepashin said Friday.
- 18:34 27/04/2012 SOCHI, April 27 (RIA Novosti)
Olympic champions, high-powered officials and financiers of the 2014 Winter Games have inaugurated the All-Russia Sports Journalists Forum in Sochi, which is designed to highlight the fundamental principles and techniques of competition coverage.
- 20:59 17/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 17 (RIA Novosti)
A program has begun to teach everyone in Sochi more than 600 words of English before the Russian resort city hosts the Winter Olympics in 2014, Russian newspaper Kommersant reported Tuesday
- 19:23 27/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 27 (RIA Novosti)
The main venue for the Sochi 2014 Olympic hockey tournament is "amazing," the International Ice Hockey Federation said on a recent inspection, despite the fact that there's "still work to do."
- 12:49 20/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 20 (RIA Novosti)
A European parliament member said on Tuesday the Sochi Olympics in 2014 could be a good time to cancel the visa regime between Russia and the EU completely or at least for the duration of the games.
- 16:07 15/03/2012
The licensed Sochi 2014 clothing collection designed by Bosco di Ciliegi for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games was displayed in the Moscow GUM department store.
- 13:40 11/03/2012
On March 9, President Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi attended test runs at the bobsleigh track at the 2014 Winter Olympics site in Sochi.
- 19:17 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti)
The luge and bobsled run for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi is “not very challenging,” Valery Silakov, coach of Russia’s luge team, told RIA Novosti on Monday.
- 19:07 29/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 29 (RIA Novosti)
The ski-cross course for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics ranks among the world’s most challenging and best-prepared, FIS freestyle coordinator Joseph Fitzgerald said Wednesday.
- 15:48 29/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 29 (RIA Novosti)
Construction is behind schedule at the ski jump facility for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, and another site may fall behind soon, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said Wednesday.
- 15:37 27/02/2012 ROSTOV-ON-DON, February 27 (RIA Novosti)
Russian prosecutors claimed Monday to have thwarted the attempted theft of $1.6 million from the Sochi Olympics construction budget in 2011.
- 18:02 24/02/2012 SOCHI, February 24 (RIA Novosti)
The snowboard course for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi has problems but should be “excellent” for the Games, Russian snowboarder Ekaterina Khatomchenkova told RIA Novosti on Friday.
- 22:12 23/02/2012 LAKE PLACID, February 23 (RIA Novosti)
Olympic bronze medalist Elana Meyers is among a host of international bobsled and skeleton atheletes who will test the Sochi Olympic run in Russia, Russian national luge and bobsled coach Oleg Sokolov told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
- 16:19 21/02/2012 SOCHI/ST.PETERSBURG, February 21 (RIA Novosti)
Russia has started minting 10 million commemorative coins featuring the three mascots of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games, Olympics organizers said on Tuesday.
- 01:23 20/02/2012
World famous music stars from the U.S. and Europe accompanied by Russian popular artists performed at the international music festival Red Rocks that took place for the second time at the Krasnaya Polyana ski resort located in Sochi at altitude of 1500 meters above sea level.
- 18:44 15/02/2012 SOCHI, February 15 (RIA Novosti)
The Sochi downhill course where Maria Hoefl-Riesch plans to end her career with a third Olympic gold is "really challenging," the German ski star said Wednesday.
- 16:31 15/02/2012 SOCHI, February 15 (RIA Novosti)
The downhill course for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi is difficult but fun to race on, reigning Olympic downhill champion Lindsey Vonn said after training runs Wednesday.
- 15:52 14/02/2012 SOCHI, February 14 (RIA Novosti)
The International Olympic Committee is "very satisfied" with preparations for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, and sees "no reason for concern" two years before Russia's first Winter Games, chairman Jean-Claude Killy said Tuesday.
- 16:25 12/02/2012 KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia, February 12 (RIA Novosti)
Sochi is ready for the 2014 Olympics, French skier Thomas Mermillod Blondin said Sunday after finishing third in the final super-combined World Cup stage of the season.
- 12:20 11/02/2012 KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia, February 11 (RIA Novosti)
Rosa Khutor may be a fully fledged World Cup ski venue, but the resort still needs $1.6 billion in upgrades to turn it into an Olympic venue and top-class destination, billionaire owner Vladimir Potanin said Saturday.
- 16:12 10/02/2012 SOCHI, February 10 (RIA Novosti)
Sochi’s round of the Alpine skiing World Cup should continue after the 2014 Olympics, rather than simply being a test event for the games, the president of Russia’s ski federation said Friday.
- 15:33 09/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 9 (RIA Novosti)
Sochi's Olympic ski venue is "world class" and as good a competition destination as any on the World Cup tour, Vancouver gold medalist Bode Miller said Thursday.
- 17:14 08/02/2012 SOCHI, February 8 (RIA Novosti)
The world’s best skiers are “delighted” with the Sochi Olympic downhill course as they prepare for a World Cup stage this weekend, Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko said Wednesday.
- 16:33 08/02/2012
Tuesday saw the ceremonial opening of a massive nationwide recruitment campaign to find volunteers for the 2014 Winter Olympics - from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok.
- 18:05 03/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 3 (RIA Novosti)
With the 2014 Sochi Winter Games less than two years away, the mountain cluster facilites are about to undergo the sternest examination yet of their ability to handle large-scale international competition.
- 15:47 02/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 2 (RIA Novosti)
Russia must strive to host as many ski events as possible because of the sport’s huge popularity in the country, the National Olympic Committee head Alexander Zhukov said Thursday.
- 18:23 31/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 31 (RIA Novosti)
The first ski jump test events ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics have been postponed because the jumping facilities are not ready, officials told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
- 22:38 30/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 30 (RIA Novosti)
The governor of the southern Russian region of Astrakhan proposed on Monday that camels carry the Olympic torch for part of the route through Russia in the lead-up to the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.
- 14:33 25/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 25 (RIA Novosti)
A major biathlon test event for the 2014 Sochi Olympics has been closed to the public due to construction delays at the course, the vice-president of the Russian Biathlon Union said Wednesday.
- 19:04 20/01/2012 SOCHI, January 20 (RIA Novosti)
Olympic constructors are putting the final touches to the Extreme snowboard park and freestyle center ahead of key test events next month.
- 12:13 22/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti)
Baltika has become the official beer supplier to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, the organizing committee said in a statement on Thursday.
- 16:05 15/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti)
The 2014 Winter Olympic Games will turn Russia's fomerly dilapidated, summer tourist destination of Sochi into a modern, year-round resort, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
- 18:54 24/11/2011 SOCHI, November 24 (RIA Novosti)
International Olympic Committee chief Jacques Rogge on Thursday noted the “extraordinary changes” in Sochi as the city prepares to host the 2014 Winter Games.
- 11:34 23/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 23 (RIA Novosti)
Private investors may never see a return on their investments to build facilities for the Winter Olympic Games in the southern resort Russian city of Sochi in 2014, a federal government official and top managers of the firms participating in the project were quoted by Vedomosti business daily as saying on Wednesday.
- 16:51 22/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 22 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday gave the green light to legislation that would ban coaches and doctors found to be complicit in doping offenses in sports.
- 16:00 22/11/2011 GORKI, Russia, November 22 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday bestowed the Order of Friendship award on International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge for popularizing sports in Russia.
- 16:40 28/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 28 (RIA Novosti)
Russian and British Olympic officials signed a memorandum of understanding in Moscow on Wednesday to provide mutual assistance in delivering their respective Winter and Summer Games.
- 16:25 26/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 26 (RIA Novosti, David Nowak)
The London 2012 organizing committee is coming to Russia to put Sochi volunteers through their own Olympics and select 100 candidates to take to Britain for next year's Summer Games.
- 13:15 26/09/2011 ROSTOV-ON-DON, September 26 (RIA Novosti)
The Coca-Cola Company has launched a $120 million plant in south Russia to supply non-alcoholic beverages for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Russia's Black Sea resort city of Sochi, the company said on Monday.
- 17:34 22/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 22 (RIA Novosti)
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has appointed Russian News & Information Agency RIA Novosti as the Host National News Agency and the National Olympic Photo Pool for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games.
- 20:07 21/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 21 (RIA Novosti)
Sochi’s Olympic organizing committee claims to have raised $1.2 billion in domestic sponsorship contracts, setting a new record by outstripping the estimated $1 billion raised by China in Beijing in 2008.
- 14:10 02/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 2 (RIA Novosti, David Nowak)
Russian meteorologists have begun monitoring weather patterns in the North Caucasus mountain range to gauge the possibility of using weather-altering technology for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
- 18:13 16/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 16 (RIA Novosti, David Nowak)
The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday praised the organizers of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics for the considerable headway made in constructing the competition venues.
- 22:56 07/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 7 (RIA Novosti)
Russia plans to send the Olympic Flame into space before the opening of the Winter Olympics 2014 in Russia's southern Black Sea resort city of Sochi, Russian Olympic Committee President Alexander Zhukov said on Thursday.
- 16:50 05/07/2011
On July 4, 2007, during the 199th session of IOC in Guatemala, Russia was elected to host its first Winter Olympics.
- 20:56 17/06/2011
2014 will be a special year for Russia. The first Winter Olympic Games in Russia’s history are promised to be top-notch. Construction in Sochi continues 24/7, not only creating new infrastructures and stadiums, but also giving some difficulties to its residents.
With less than 1,000 days left to go until the opening of the Winter Olympics, RIA Novosti visited Sochi to check the resort city’s preparation for the Games.
- 14:47 20/05/2011
The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) has signed $130 million contract with national energy giant Gazprom to help get the country's athletes ready for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, committee's president said on Friday.
- 21:45 16/05/2011
On Saturday, May 14, Russia began a 1,000-day countdown to the start of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.
- 13:37 28/04/2011
On April 26, at its plant in Krefeld, Germany, Siemens launched the production of its Lastochka (Swallow) electric trains to be used during the Sochi Olympics.
- 20:01 06/04/2011
The 2014 Winter Olympic Games in the southern Russian resort city of Sochi will have six new events, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said Wednesday.
- 16:08 23/03/2011
Contractors building sporting facilities for the 2014 Olympic Games in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi followed UN recommendations on Wednesday and signed a declaration to preserve the ecosystem of a local river.
- 20:49 21/03/2011
A delegation from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) arrived in Russia's Black Sea resort city of Sochi on Monday to inspect the country's preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
- 23:55 20/03/2011
Sochi 2014 Olympics' mascot snow leopard is a symbol of a new Russia, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in an interview to Rossiya (Russia) and Moya Planeta (My Planet) TV-channels.
- 19:59 15/03/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday ordered an investigation into overpricing practices at 2014 Winter Olympic construction projects.
- 21:15 09/03/2011
The animals elected to be mascots for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi (the leopard, polar bear and rabbit) are among the oldest species inhabiting the Moscow Zoo. Now they are even more popular with visitors.
- 18:34 01/03/2011
The leopard, polar bear and rabbit became mascots of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi through voting that ended on Saturday evening. The results were announced in the program “Mascot – Sochi-2014 – Finals” on Channel One Russia.
- 13:30 27/02/2011
The leopard, polar bear and hare were chosen mascots of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in a nationwide vote, which finished on Saturday and registered an unprecedented 1.4 million phone calls and SMS messages, the head of the expert jury said on Sunday.
- 05:50 27/02/2011
Leopard, polar bear and hare were chosen mascots of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics following in a nationwide SMS-vote which finished on Saturday.
- 00:07 27/02/2011
Leopard, polar bear and hare were chosen mascots of the 2014 Winter Olympics following the results of an all-Russian SMS-voting which finished on Saturday.
- 23:37 26/02/2011
Leopard, Polar Bear and Hare were chosen mascots for the 2014 Winter Olympics following the results of an all-Russian sms voting which finished on Saturday.
- 14:23 26/02/2011
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he would like leopard to become the official mascot of the 2014 Winter Olympic as the voting to choose the candidate is about to start.
- 20:49 18/02/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday told members of Russia's Security Council that they must deal with any attempts to disrupt the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
- 17:54 18/02/2011
A senior official from the International Olympic Committee was pleased with a new center for Alpine Skiing in Russia's south that was built for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
- 23:59 17/02/2011
The cross-country skiing venue for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics will be a temporary structure that will be taken down after the Games.
- 20:29 08/02/2011
On Monday, 10 shortlisted mascots for the 2014 Sochi Olympic and Paralympic Games were presented to the public. Russians will vote by telephone and text message to select the winners on February 26.
- 06:36 07/02/2011
Russia's largest broadcaster Channel One will present 13 candidates to become the official mascot of the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
- 18:31 04/01/2011
The 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi will leave local residents with state-of-the-art infrastructure, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday.
- 16:09 10/12/2010
More than 50 sports facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia's Black Sea resort city of Sochi will be opened by the end of the year, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said on Friday.
- 22:05 24/11/2010
The Russian Public Opinion Research Center on November 13-14 asked 1,600 Russians to choose the best idea for the mascot.
- 21:07 24/11/2010
A nationwide competition to choose the best mascot for the 2014 Winter Olympics is heating up in Russian - polls for the best mascot have given different and even contradictory results.
- 23:44 25/10/2010
The next Winter Olympics may include new types of competitions, including team figure skating, mixed biathlon and slopestyle snowboard, International Olympic Committee Director of Communications Mark Adams said on Monday.
- 12:50 22/10/2010
A delegation of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has expressed satisfaction with progress made on environmental issues as part of the preparations for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, said UNEP expert Herve Lethier.
- 21:16 13/10/2010
A delegation from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has positively evaluated Russia's preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in the resort city of Sochi.
- 04:09 13/10/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will travel to Sochi to inspect the construction of Olympic facilities together with a high-ranking official from the International Olympic Committee.
- 01:44 19/09/2010
Only 15% of all construction projects for the 2014 Olympics have been completed so far in the host city of Sochi.
- 12:30 18/09/2010
Snow leopard leads the competition for the best mascot for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, organizers said on Saturday.
- 07:24 16/09/2010
Greece wants to boost cooperation with Russia in organizing the 2012 Winter Olympics to be held in the Russian Black Sea resort city of Sochi.
- 16:31 13/09/2010
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak tried to ease public concerns on Monday by pledging that the holding of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia's Black Sea resort city of Sochi would help improve the ecological situation in the area.
- 12:46 07/09/2010
Sochi, the host city for the 2014 Winter Olympics, lacks official garbage dumps for both Games construction and household waste, a business daily said on Tuesday.
- 11:56 05/09/2010
The seaport of Sochi is closed for cargo vessels as construction of a new passenger terminal to meet the flow of visitors in time of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics will kick off within the nearest days, head of the city's Transport and Communication Administration said.
- 16:14 04/08/2010
All the skiing facilities for the 2012 winter Olympics in the southern Russian town of Sochi are being constructed on schedule or even ahead of it, Taimuraz Bolloev, the head of Russia’s Olympic construction company Olympstroy, told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during his visit to the Rosa Khutor ski resort on Tuesday.
- 17:56 30/07/2010
A nationwide competition to find a mascot for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, to be held in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi, will kick off on September 1, organizers said on Friday.
- 14:59 30/07/2010
Russia began a search for a mascot for the 2014 Winter Olympic games, to be held in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
- 14:24 30/07/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will on Friday head a meeting on preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympic in Sochi.
- 11:26 27/07/2010
The Austrian construction company Strabag may win in August a 500 million euro ($646 million) contract to build the Olympic village for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Russian business daily Kommersant said on Tuesday.
- 15:34 26/07/2010
Famous violinist Vanessa-Mae plans to represent Thailand in downhill skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Thailand's Bangkok Post reported on Monday.
- 11:36 15/07/2010
The Russian Transport Ministry has requested Boeing, the world's top aerospace company, to deliver Boeing 787 Dreamliners to the country's flagship carrier Aeroflot two years ahead of schedule by 2014, Minister Igor Levitin said on Thursday.
- 21:51 14/07/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday told members of student construction brigades involved in building Olympic facilities in the southern Russian resort of Sochi of his student past.
- 07:01 10/07/2010
Ivan Skobrev, a Russian speed skater who took a bronze and a silver at the Vancouver Olympics, dismissed as "complete nonsense" media reports that he was going to compete for the U.S. at the 2014 Games in Sochi.
- 17:49 23/06/2010
Russia intends to have 215 athletes on its national team when it hosts the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, the country's sports minister said on Wednesday.
- 17:50 15/06/2010
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge was satisfied with Russia's Olympic preparations during his visit to Sochi, the head of the Olimpstroy state construction corporation said on Tuesday.
- 11:38 10/06/2010
The president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Jacques Rogge (left), and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak opened the Museum of Sporting Glory in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi on June 8.
- 17:07 08/06/2010
President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Jacques Rogge and Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozak opened on Tuesday a Sporting Glory museum in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi.
- 21:37 07/06/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Jacques Rogge laid on Monday the foundation stone of the Olympic University in the southern Russian city of Sochi.
- 18:03 07/06/2010
Russia is already reaping the benefits of developments in the southern city of Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said on Monday.
- 15:14 07/06/2010
Russia's sports minister, who nearly lost his job due to the Russian team's poor performance at the Vancouver Olympics, said on Monday that training facilities for all winter disciplines would be built in Russian regions in 18 months
- 00:59 07/06/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will visit the Russian southern resort of Sochi on Monday to discuss the preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics with President of the International Olympics Committee (IOC) Jacques Rogge.
- 17:14 25/05/2010
The Russian branch of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has sent to the State Corporation Olympstroy its remarks and proposals concerning a draft document introducing the "green" standard for the Olympic construction in Sochi, the WWF-Russia said in a statement
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