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 ...

The 2018 tournament will take place in 11 cities across Russia - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Kazan, Saransk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and Samara. 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 ...

“It was amazing, It was like the Truman Show -- when you enter the TV." Moscow -- Before this World Cup, the last time Sara went to a soccer game, she had to pretend she was Korean in order to sneak ...

All your basic World Cup questions answered. Have you noticed lots of people wearing brightly colored sports shirts recently? Hear your neighbors screaming passionately at their TV? Are your ...

The Russian national team has been on the outside of competitive action for a number of years now. Due to the country's early 2022 invasion of Ukraine, they have been at odds with both FIFA and UEFA ...