Chairman of the Athletes' Commission of the Russian Olympic Committee Velikaya attends a meeting in Moscow MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian athletes on Thursday proposed playing patriotic folk song ...

As Russian athletes prepare for the day when they again hoist Olympic medals to the sound of an unfamiliar anthem and a generic flag, they are calling on Katyusha to help assuage their loss. The ...

GENEVA (AP) — Russia's wish to use a patriotic Soviet-era folk song as a replacement anthem for the Tokyo Olympics was rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Friday in further fallout from ...

MOSCOW, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Russian athletes on Thursday proposed playing patriotic folk song 'Katyusha' at international sporting events for the next two years, while Russia's national anthem is ...