Russian officials have been requested to provide details of their anti-doping activities over the last five years by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), it has been announced as a backlash begins in the country against the organisation's decision to reward whistleblowing couple Yuliya and Vitaly Stepanov.

traitors," State Duma deputy and Russian Paralympic Committee vice-president Roman Batalov told the TASS

serious questions regarding the anti-doping control beginning in 2010 and until 2015," Smirnov told TASS

I will certainly attend the hearings and will hold the floor," Ugarova told TASS.

Yury Nagornykh has reportedly been dismissed from his position as Russian Deputy Sports Minister following a decree signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

sponsored doping programme" at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.According to the TASS

Russia 2018 have officially unveiled a wolf mascot for the FIFA World Cup after a public vote was held to select one of three designs.

from the point of view of promoting the country and the championship," he told Russian news agency TASS

will be replaced as Sports Minister by Olympic gold medallist Pavel Kolobkov, official news agency TASS

Russia’s participation in Paralympic skiing and biathlon events at Pyeongchang 2018 could be in doubt, according to their head coach after she revealed they had missed a deadline to apply for upcoming international events.

deadline and it is hard for me to say what is coming next," she told the official Russian news agency TASS

International Sambo Federation (FIAS) President Vasily Shestakov has cooled talk of the sport he leads being added to the Olympic programme, insisting the most important step at this moment in time is to get full recognition from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

came on the same day that Sergey Yeliseyev, President of the All-Russian Sambo Federation, told TASS

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for "every effort" to be made to have sambo recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after the sport’s world governing body officially submitted its application.

against an armed criminal.Sergey Yeliseyev, President of the All-Russian Sambo Federation, told TASS

Federations.Rashid Nurgaliyev, deputy secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, told TASS

Athletes who have therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) should be excluded from major events because it gives them an unfair advantage over the rest of the field, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed today.

permissions certain athletes receive under the so-called medical exemptions," he said, according to TASS

“Sports, of course, should be outside doping,” Putin was quoted as saying by TASS.

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has claimed the country needs "precise criteria" from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in order to resume their anti-doping programme.

criteria necessary for the resumption of our work," said Mukto, according to the Russian news agency TASS

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Sir Craig Reedie has welcomed the sentiment expressed at the Olympic Summit which called for the organisation to be given "greater authority and regulatory powers".

Both the IOC and Governments may increase WADA financing," he told the Russian news agency TASS."

Russian high jumper Anna Chicherova, the London 2012 Olympic champion, has been stripped of her bronze medal from the Beijing 2008 after her doping samples were retested and came back positive for anabolic steroids.

positive in re-tests of 454 Beijing 2008 Olympic samples undertaken by the IOC.Russian news agency TASS

Belarus were fearful their entire nation would be banned from competing at the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after a member of their delegation carried the Russian flag at the Opening Ceremony, the head of the country’s National Paralympic Committee (NPC) Oleg Chepel has admitted.

’s mission in Rio, can be revoked, and we felt like we were at war," Shepel was quoted as saying by TASS

Former Russian Federation of Bobsleigh (RFB) President Georgy Bedzhamov will remain in Monaco following his arrest in April, after Prince Albert II decided against his extradition back to Moscow.

Russia's official news agency TASS reported that Prince Albert, a member of the International Olympic

The representative of the Belarusian delegation who carried a Russian flag during the Opening Ceremony at last month’s Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro will be given an apartment in Moscow as a gift, it has been reported.

Foreign Ministry’s official spokeswoman Maria Zakharova in a statement sent to official news agency TASS

Ivars Kalviņš, the Latvian chemist who designed meldonium, met with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) last month in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to have the product removed from the 2017 Prohibited List.

opinion of experts and agree that meldonium is not a doping substance," Kalviņš told Russian news agency TASS