Eight people, tried in the largest Russian political trial of the past half-century, were jailed last week having been held for protesting the seemingly endless presidency of Vladimir Putin, writes Masha Gessen

The 'Men's 500m Double Dash Final' reimagined with Mario Kart rules. Of course. It all makes sense now.

Russian teenager Adelina Sotnikova edged past defending champion Kim Yu Na to win the ladies’ figure skating title at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi Olympic Park.

Russian punk group Pussy Riot showed a new video, filmed in the centre of Winter Olympics host Sochi, savaging President Putin over the hosting of the Games and the rights climate in Russia.

Surrounded by snow and ice in Sochi, a husband and wife won Olympic medals within just minutes of each other in a heart-warming tale.

Two members of the punk group Pussy Riot ran out of a police station in their trademark balaclavas after being released following several hours of questioning in Sochi, the host city of the Winter Olympics.

A member of the punk group Pussy Riot said she and one of her bandmates were detained while walking in central Sochi, the Russian host city of the Winter Olympics.

Irish snowboarder Seamus O’Connor’s Sochi adventure came to a disappointing end yesterday as he narrowly failed to qualify for the final of the halfpipe discipline at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Ever since the Winter Olympics were awarded to Russia, fears were raised about potential terrorist attacks, which have plagued the country since the collapse of the Soviet Union, writes Dmitri Trenin.

AS an Irish citizen, I would have waded into this whole Panti / Iona thing earlier but I live in Brighton where everyone is busy bringing up their ordinary children in ordinary same sex households and getting married to whoever they ordinarily love without further ado, and to be honest it passed me by.

The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics were declared officially open by Russian president Vladimir Putin at a lavish ceremony this evening in which International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach called for “goodwill, tolerance, excellence and peace”.

As the Winter Olympics get underway in Sochi, Google added its voice to the chorus of US companies speaking out against Russia’s law restricting gay-rights activities.

It’s not as prestigious as the track-and-field, but since its inception in 1924 there has been plenty of drama on the slopes, says Jonathan de Burca Butler

TWENTY-YEAR-OLD Conor Lyne is a man who seems at ease with his destiny. Despite his somewhat internationally mixed upbringing (born in England, brought up in the USA), there was never a shadow of a doubt as to what country he would represent if he got the opportunity.

A pest control company which kills stray dogs in Russia has said it has a contract to exterminate more of the animals throughout the Winter Olympics.

The first of two warships has sailed from Italy in a high-profile sign of US efforts to protect Americans at the Winter Olympics – and at least two dozen FBI agents are on their way to Russia.

KREMLINOLOGY was the well-respected skill of divining what was happening inside the secretive world of Moscow rule during the cold war.

So this is what you get when you spend €37bn on the Winter Olympics.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says gays should feel welcome at the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, but they must “leave the children in peace”.

A series of unexplained killings in southern Russia involving booby-trapped bombs has further heightened security fears ahead of next month’s Winter Olympics in Sochi.