ZURICH -- FIFA has rejected calls to move the 2018 World Cup from Russia, saying the tournament "can achieve positive change." Russia's alleged involvement in shooting down a Malaysia Airlines plane ...

MOSCOW, September 14. /TASS/. Preliminary ticket sales for the final stage of the 2018 World Cup Russia kicked off on Thursday at 12:00 noon Moscow time. Tickets are available for purchase on FIFA’s ...

Russia, which has never hosted a World Cup or any other major soccer tournament, feels the event would leave a long-lasting legacy for the world's biggest country. Best footballing moment: Winning the ...

Russia's sports minister Vitaly Mutko believes the conflict in Ukraine will not affect the 2018 World Cup. Mutko, the chairman of the local organising committee and a FIFA board member, said he did ...

The ban was issued by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) after the Russian doping scandal Russia's national football team have been banned from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar after a decision from the ...

MOSCOW, December 10. /TASS/. Artyom Dultsev and Anna Dultseva, sleeper agents who were returned to Russia in a prisoner exchange, say they made a secret visit to their motherland in 2018 during the ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Stanislav Cherchesov is the new coach of Russia ahead of its home World Cup in 2018, after a disastrous performance in the European Championship ended predecessor Leonid Slutsky's tenure ...