The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics were President Vladimir Putin's pet project as he sought to expand Russia's global clout, boost its prestige and impress the world. It became the most expensive Olympics ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin wants the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi to be perfect, so when he found out who was behind the delays of the site's ski jumping complex, he did the understandable ...

ATHENS, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Ensuring security at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi is up to Russian organisers, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Thursday amid concerns from the Games ...

The Olympic city was inundated with flood waters after torrential rains. Moscow -- Heavy rains have flooded Sochi, the Russian city that hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics, leaving one dead and some ...

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — The Russians put the first man in space but, strangely, they have no Yuri Gagarin in alpine skiing. The host country for the 2014 Sochi Olympics has, by all accounts, ...

In April, at the end of another seemingly endless winter, most Russians are eager to get rid of the piles of snow that have clogged their cities and streets and yards for months. Yet down south in the ...

MOSCOW, November 22. /TASS/. Russian skeleton racers Aleksandr Tretiakov and Elena Nikitina has been stripped of their medals won at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi and were also banned for ...

The 2014 Sochi Olympics are the most plush, high tech, well designed and all around spectacular Olympics in the history of sports history, if you read Russia's state-run and state-owned media outlets.

It would be so easy if it were just about new buildings. Those are doing quite well; the violent face-lift that Russia is giving the Black Sea resort city of Sochi before its 2014 Winter Olympics is ...