Putin lifts ban on protests at Sochi Games

Last Updated: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 14:11

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday signed a decree lifting a blanket ban on political protests at the Sochi Winter Olympics, bowing to pressure from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Russian president tests the ski slopes in Sochi

Last Updated: Friday, January 3, 2014, 21:08

Russian President Vladimir Putin is hitting the ski slopes - flying to Sochi to challenge the mountains that will host the Winter Games next month.

Despite suicide attacks, IOC chief says Russia will deliver safe Sochi Games

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 1, 2014, 19:55

In wake of the Games that are to begin from Feb 7, Putin has ordered some extensive security measures to be put in place.

Russia buries dead as Volgograd bombings toll hits 34

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 31, 2013, 12:32

Russia beefed up security and mourned its dead as the toll from jarring successive-day suicide strikes in the run-up to the Sochi Winter Olympic Games rose to 34.

Volgograd suicide attacks: Vladimir Putin says will fiercely fight terrorists

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 31, 2013, 09:38

Just weeks before the crucial Sochi Games are to begin, Russia was stunned by two suicide attacks that killed a total of 31 people within a span of 48 hours, triggering a high alert in the country.

Russia on alert after suicide bombings kill 31

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 31, 2013, 02:57

At least 14 people were killed Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself up on a packed trolleybus in Volgograd, raising new concerns about security at the Sochi Olympics a day after a deadly attack on the southern Russian city`s train station.

Bach expects `safe and secure` Olympics in Sochi

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 31, 2013, 00:49

IOC President Thomas Bach expressed full confidence today that Russian authorities will deliver a "safe and secure" Olympics in Sochi despite the two deadly suicide bombings in southern Russia that heightened concerns about the terrorist threat to the Winter Games.

Volgograd suicide attacks `linked`; Russia steps up security ahead of Sochi Games

Last Updated: Monday, December 30, 2013, 09:36

A day after the horrific attack at a railway station in Russia`s Volgograd, another blast was reported to have taken place on a trolleybus in the city on Monday, killing 10 people.

10 killed by blast at station in Russia`s south

Last Updated: Sunday, December 29, 2013, 17:00

At least 10 people were killed and three were wounded on Sunday by an explosion at a railway station in southern Russia, officials said, heightening concern about terrorism ahead of February`s Olympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

Car bomb kills three in southern Russia

Last Updated: Saturday, December 28, 2013, 03:33

A car bomb killed three people in the southern Russian city of Pyatigorsk on Friday, officials said, in a worrying development for the Kremlin as Russia prepares to host the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi in six weeks` time.

Russia closing most cases of Greenpeace activists: Group

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 25, 2013, 18:09

Russia was on Wednesday dropping most of the cases against 30 Greenpeace crew members of an Arctic protest ship, marking the "final chapter" of a three-month criminal probe, the environmental group said.

Shift in power heralds changes to Olympic movement

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 25, 2013, 16:46

The Olympic Movement was at a crossroads in 2013 when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) underwent a shift in power in more than a decade by electing Thomas Bach as its president, replacing Jacques Rogge.