Last Updated: Monday, February 3, 2014, 04:25
Brazil`s branch of Amnesty International on Sunday held a rally in Rio to protest what it termed Russia`s "homophobia".
Last Updated: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 08:50
Sochi, a city in Krasnodar Krai region of Russia, is located on the Black Sea coast near the border between Georgia/Abkhazia and Russia.
Last Updated: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 08:40
Poland`s Kamil Stoch made it three wins for the season with success on Willingen`s large hill, the penultimate jump before the Sochi Olympics, on Saturday.
Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 15:31
Zach Parise, who won a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Games, was named captain of the US men`s ice hockey team for the Sochi Olympics on Friday.
Last Updated: Friday, January 31, 2014, 15:55
While Sochi`s Olympic venues are now among the most tightly guarded facilities in the world, the rest of this sprawling Black Sea resort looks more vulnerable.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 18:06
Russia has identified two suicide bombers responsible for attacks that killed 34 people in the city of Volgograd last month and arrested two suspected accomplices in violence-torn Dagestan province, officials said on Thursday.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 06:09
The US military has renewed an offer to help Russia with security at next month`s Olympic games in Sochi, the Pentagon said.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 17:25
In the third year of his third presidential term, Putin faces stringent international media scrutiny over the upcoming Sochi Games and its allied Paralympics.
Last Updated: Monday, January 27, 2014, 13:58
Analysts say the former Cold War rivals are unlikely to risk a full-blown confrontation over security in Sochi, the first Olympics held on Russian soil since the US-boycotted 1980 Moscow Games.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 25, 2014, 14:13
International gay rights campaigners are using branded clothing inspired by the Olympic movement`s own values to show their opposition to Russian laws on homosexuality ahead of the Sochi Games.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 06:43
The White House stopped short of expressing full confidence in Russia`s Olympics security operation today following a call between presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 19:02
At least five European countries` Olympic committees received letters in Russian on Wednesday making a "terrorist threat" before the Sochi Games, but Olympic chiefs said they posed no danger.
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