Thirty years on, and the attitude could not have been more different. The driver behind this change was the Games. Sochi’s election as host city in 2007 led – for the first time – to Russian ...

The main building of Vladimir Putin's Bocharov Ruchey residence in Sochi has been completely demolished, reports Proekt. The dictator has also reportedly stopped flying to his cherished city.

Among the tour options in Sochi are a visit to a tea chalet overlooking the town of Dagomys and a more sobering tour to Josef Stalin's camouflaged dacha, called Green Grove. Skate parks ...

Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin, who funded the development of the resort which staged Alpine skiing during the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi, has been sanctioned by the ...

Russian Paralympian Nikolay Polukhin is stripped of his medals for violating anti-doping rules at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi.

The attendance at the Autodrom stood at more than 65,000 spectators on the third and the main day of the competition. Read also Team Mercedes sweeps F1 Sochi GP podium with Hamilton’s strong ...

Here is the final medals table of the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, which came to an end on Sunday (16 March) at the Fisht Stadium with a spectacular Closing Ceremony. Russia topped the ...

almost by design Olympic budgets overrun - last year one report described the proposed budget for an Olympic bid as "more like a fictitious minimum that is consistently overspent" - but Sochi's ...

Russian Paralympian Nikolay Polukhin has been stripped of medals for violating anti-doping rules - 11 years after he won them at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi. The International Paralympic ...