Three-time Olympic champion Vyacheslav Ekimov - a former team-mate of Lance Armstrong - has been elected President of the Russian Cycling Federation (FBR) today.

In 2010, I put forward a candidate, then my attempt carried adventurist character," Ekimov told the TASS

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach's 121-word reaction to part two of the McLaren report contained some tough talk.

delineates are still under dispute.Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Alexander Zhukov told TASS

Sochi has been stripped of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Championships today, with another location "to be determined" in coming days. 

accept the IBSF decision to move the championships from Russia to a different country," they told the TASS

Russian Olympic Committee President Alexander Zhukov has claimed that the Government has never been involved in a system to give athletes in the country banned drugs and help them avoid being caught but that they are prepared to cooperate fully with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) following the publication yesterday of the McLaren Report. 

state support for doping in Russia has ever existed or exists," he told Russia's official news agency TASS

accomplices," Kolobkov, a five-time Olympic fencing medallist, including a gold at Sydney 2000, told TASS

British Rowing chief executive Andy Parkinson has been appointed chair of a Task Force set-up to determine whether the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) have met reinstatement criteria necessary for their suspension to be lifted.

necessary legal assistance" to the RPC as they consider the reinstatement criteria.According to the TASS

Russian officials have called for "double standards" supposedly exercised by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to be discussed by the United Nations (UN).

in compliance with justice, equal approach and fair game," the diplomat was quoted as saying by the TASS

The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) will propose its athletes compete at the 2017 European Indoor Championships in Belgrade under a neutral flag and based on individual applications, the national governing body’s President Dmitry Shlyakhtin has said.

winter championship as independent track and fielders," Shlyakhtin told Russia's official news agency TASS

We have not yet received the confirmation from the IAAF regarding this issue," he told TASS."

Russia’s suspended track and field athletes look increasingly likely to remain out in the cold during next summer’s International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in London, according to new details from the world governing body's Taskforce’s latest report.

procedures within its borders can be conducted effectively and without interference.The Russian news agency TASS

Russian track and field athletes will remain suspended from international competition in the wake of widespread doping abuse, at least until February. 

 Earlier today the Russian news agency TASS reported Mutko as saying: "I hope that the All-Russia

Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov, the Moscow anti-doping laboratory's former director whose allegations led to Richard McLaren’s investigation into claims of state-sponsored Russian doping at their home Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games, has been accused of trying to induce athletes into taking unknown substances.

persuading them to take substances possessing unknown properties," Ilya Lazutov is reported as saying by TASS

A framework towards boosting relations with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to improve drugs testing practices has been agreed at a meeting of European Sports Ministers in Budapest.

Vitaly Mutko left the role to take the deputy Prime Minister position, was also present.He told the TASS

Valentin Balakhnichev, former President of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF), has denied involvement in new claims that six athletes from the country were involved in paying top officials from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to avoid having adverse doping results made public.

of the IAAF and is now serving a lifetime ban from the sport - told the official Russian news agency TASS

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko has urged FIFA to be “more active” in promoting the 2018 World Cup as Gianni Infantino arrived in the country for tomorrow’s Confederations Cup draw.

tomorrow ©Getty Images“We expect questions to Russia from him [Infantino],” Mutko told news agency TASS

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko has fiercely criticised the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) reinstatement criteria which must be met if the country's suspension is to be lifted following allegations of state-sponsored doping.

course, these financial demands are excessive, I would even call it a shakedown," Mutko told the TASS

seen as a future contender for the Russian Olympic Committee Presidency, went even further in telling TASS

the current work of the Paralympic Committee, this only concerns the alleged violations," he added to TASS

Maxim Agapitov has been elected as the permanent President of the Russian Weightlifting Federation (RWF) following the resignation of Sergey Syrtsov.

the reason for the resignation of Syrtsov after six years in the role in September.Syrtsov told the TASS