The Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games which will take place in Russia in 2014 is a great stimul for development for Russia.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will retest frozen samples from previous Games after an improved testing method led to hundreds of positive cases that went undetected, according to a German television channel.

A Moscow testing laboratory for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics will have its World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accreditation suspended unless it improves its procedures by 1 December.

On 16 and 17 November on the Manezhnaya Square in Moscow a House of the Russian Olympic team will open.

The informational call-center which operates on 7 languages starts working in Sochi.

Journalists at the Winter Olympic Games Sochi-2014 will be allowed to make photo and video materials for personal usage with no fear of losing accreditation.

The Prime-Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitriy Medvedev signed an order about building of a new sport center for children in Sochi.

A Soyuz capsule has returned to Earth, carrying the Sochi 2014 Olympic torch after it was taken on its first spacewalk as part of the Russian lead-up to the Winter Games.

A rocket carrying the Olympic torch successfully blasted off Thursday from Earth on its way to the International Space Station and its first spacewalk in history.

The United Nations General Assembly has maintained its tradition of the past two decades, adopting a symbolic resolution for an international truce during the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia.