FIFA has confirmed it has received new information from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) about Russian footballers implicated in a database obtained from the Moscow Laboratory.

concerning new data from the Moscow laboratory obtained by WADA recently," a FIFA spokesperson told TASS

A decision on whether the Russian women's ice hockey team will be allowed to play at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang is due to be made next week, International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) President René Fasel revealed in Moscow today.

next week, now everything is being discussed," Fasel told the country's official state news agency TASS

More Russian cross-country skiers are set to be investigated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Disciplinary Commission, it has been claimed. 

Natalia Matveyeva of violating anti-doping rules.In an interview with Russia's official state news agency TASS

a blow," Kryukov, an Olympic gold medallist at Vancouver 2010 and a three-time world champion, told TASS

The Russian Olympic Committee has voted unanimously to agree to let the country's athletes compete under a neutral flag at Pyeongchang 2018.

with the IOC] the invitation to the leading sportsmen," he told Russia's official states news agency TASS

Applications for a further three Russian athletes to compete as neutrals have been filed to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

According to Russia's state news agency TASS, the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) has sent the appeals

November 2015, was maintained by the IAAF Council last month.RusAF spokesperson Natalia Yukhareva told TASS

A national anti-doping laboratory at Moscow's State University could begin working in full by May of next year, it has been claimed.

Viktor Sadovnichy, the rector of the university, told Russia's state news agency TASS that he was hopeful

Russia's athletes plan to compete under a neutral flag at next year's Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, the head of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Athletes' Commission Sofya Velikaya revealed today. 

Athletes’ Commission to compete under a neutral flag.According to Russia's official state news agency TASS

Winter sporting governing bodies have been reminded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that only they have the authority to define details of Russia's neutral participation at Pyeongchang 2018.

things are tomorrow, in the next 48 hours," Fasel added to Russia's official state news agency TASS

Russia will pay a $15 million (£11 million/€13 million) imposed on them by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) but only if they agree that there will no further punishment taken against the country, Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko has claimed. 

meeting on this issue and take the responsibility," Mutko told Russia's official state news agency TASS

A stalemate between Russia and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) looks set to continue after the country's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev categorically insisted today that they will never recognise and apologise for an institutional drug-taking system.

unfortunate that clean athletes see such injustice," Medvedev told a Government Session, as quoted by the TASS

Appeals on behalf of 12 Russian sliders including Olympic champions Alexander Zubkov and Aleksandr Tretiakov have supposedly been filed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the Russian Bobsleigh Federation (RBF) have said.

for doping and sample tampering at Sochi 2014.The RBF, whose President is now Zubkov, told the TASS

Russia are not currently contemplating a boycott of next year's Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang but the final decision will rest with President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin admitted today.

nbsp;"No, it is not under consideration," he said, according to Russia's official state news agency TASS

committed to the Olympic ideas, as President Putin said, it is his decision," Peskov said, according to TASS

Ilya Atnabayev, a former European Youth champion weightlifter who was handed a four-year doping ban in 2015, has now been suspended after mistakenly being allowed to participate in a top domestic bobsleigh competition by Russian authorities.

Russian website Championat.com highlighting the situation and, shortly afterwards, it was reported by the Tass

violation of the anti-doping rules," national team manager and international judge Sergey Zhurkin told TASS

International Luge Federation (FIL) President Josef Fendt has become the latest winter sports official to speak out against a blanket ban of Russian athletes at Pyeongchang 2018.

agency TASS.Demchenko also claimed doping brings little benefit in the sport.In a bizarre comment to TASS

Former Russian Biathlon Union President Mikhail Prokhorov has claimed he is prepared to provide legal and financial support to biathletes sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over the Sochi 2014 doping scandal.

honour and reputation, I will be prepared to provide any legal and financial support," Prokhorov told TASS