The International Ski Federation’s (FIS) schedule for the 2020-2021 World Cup season has suffered further disruption due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Federation (FSR) has confirmed it would be held from February 6 to 7, Russia's official state news agency TASS

Russia has become the latest country to withdraw from the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships, citing concerns over coronavirus and the political situation in Turkey.

refuse to participate in the European Championship," Rodionenko told the Russian state news agency TASS

that the team will not come to the next European Championships in artistic gymnastics," Gayibov told TASS

Russia and Belarus have signed a cooperation agreement which is expected to see joint training camps and competitions organised between the nations in the build-up to the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Games in Tokyo in the far east bases of Russia,” Matytsin said, according to Russia’s state news agency TASS

destabilisation of the organisation of both competitions and the training process," he said, according to TASS

Former Russian Athletics Federation President Valentin Balakhnichev has claimed he decided not to challenge the three-year prison sentence he received in France because it was a "political decision".

I don’t even know what to appeal to," Balakhnichev told Russia’s official state news agency TASS."

They had lawyers, but I didn’t have a representative to represent my interests," he told TASS."

The Government of the Sverdlovsk Region in Russia is set to draft its regional budget for 2021, handing over 21.3 billion rubles (£209 million/$269 million/€231 million) for the Yekaterinburg 2023 Summer World University Games. 

According to Russian state news agency TASS, this was announced by the Department of Information Policy

was set to amount to 64.7 billion rubles (£634 million/$818 million/€702 million).Earlier in October, TASS

more than 38 billion rubles (£370 million/$480 million/€412 million).In August, it was reported by TASS

Former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack and his son, Papa Massata, have both lodged appeals against convictions they received in a court in Paris last month for corruption, but former Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) head Valentin Balakhnichev has not challenged his sentence.

involving Russian athletes.Following the sentence, Balakhnichev told Russia’s official state news agency TASS

France, the Court for Human Rights".Balakhnichev dismissed claims he had refused to cooperate and told TASS

Three-time Olympic champion Kohei Uchimura and double World Championship silver medallist Lilia Akhaimova have tested positive for coronavirus prior to next weekend’s team gymnastics event in Tokyo.

instead of Akhaimova, Shchekoldina will fly to Tokyo," Rodionenko told the Russian state news agency TASS

Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin claimed he would do "everything possible" to allow spectators back into sport following the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Ministry of Sports is not a forecasting service," he said, as reported by Russian state news agency TASS

Russian biathlete Evgeny Ustyugov looks set to contest a four-year results ban imposed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport Anti-Doping Division (CAS ADD) after his lawyer claimed there was an "absence of any legal analysis and justification" in the ruling.

further gold medal in the mass start race in Vancouver.Speaking to Russia's official state news agency TASS

taken without warning and tested negative for doping in a laboratory in Cologne," Panich complained to TASS

The construction of facilities for the Yekaterinburg 2023 Summer World University Games has been "unaffected" by the coronavirus pandemic, according to Timur Ufimtsev, general director of Sinara-Development, the contractors to build facilities for the multi-sport competition.

2023 Summer World University Games, due to be held in the Russian city, were presented, as reported by TASS

International Chess Federation (FIDE) President Arkady Dvorkovich has confirmed the Candidates Tournament will pick up from where it left off in Yekaterinburg next year.

created uncertainty over where it would be held.But speaking to Russia's official state news agency TASS

Sergei Seyranov has been re-elected President of the Russian Student Sport Union (RSSU).

Universiade ©Getty ImagesSeyranov's re-election was confirmed to Russia's official state news agency TASS

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has cleared biathlete Alexey Slepov in a whereabouts failures case after he proved he missed a third drugs test in 12 months because he was in hospital.

subsequently faced with receiving a two-year suspension.However, as reported by Russian state-run news agency TASS

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) is set to begin the process of selecting a new director general in December following the dismissal of Yuri Ganus in August.

currently being set up and will start the selection process in December, as reported by Russian news agency TASS

A three-year World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) investigation into doping in weightlifting, based largely on evidence provided by whistleblowers, has revealed an astonishing level of corruption that in several instances is the subject of ongoing investigations by law-enforcement agencies.

Weightlifting Federation (FTAR) has put the blame on Aján before and today he told the Russian news agency TASS