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Epiphanny Prince is headed to Russia.

Unbeaten Alexander Povetkin retained his WBA heavyweight belt Friday night, stopping Polish challenger Andrzej Wawrzyk in the third round for his fourth successful title defense.

Veteran NHL coach Mike Keenan has signed a two-year contract to coach the Russian club Metallurg Magnitogorsk.

The Russian track and field federation says Olympic discus silver medalist Darya Pishchalnikova has been banned for 10 years for doping and will be stripped of her medal.

The Interfax news agency says the former Russian Olympic official who was forced to quit in a scandal over preparations for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games has been diagnosed with high levels of arsenic in his blood.

Vladimir Putin says he is certain next year's Winter Olympics in Sochi will be successful despite concerns about construction delays and huge cost overruns.

Standard & Poor's is warning that many of the Russian host cities for World Cup 2018 will have trouble finding the money to build soccer stadiums.

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Russian sports officials said Tuesday they will beef up security at sports events and the Sochi 2014 Winter Games in the wake of deadly explosions at Boston's marathon that killed three people, and injured over 140 others.

Russian track cyclist Valery Kaykov has been suspended after testing positive for a black-market drug that the World Anti-Doping Agency issued a health warning about last month.

Russian prosecutors filed abuse of office charges against the former deputy head of the Russian Olympic Committee on Wednesday.

A player in the Kazakhstani ice hockey league has died, several days after a violent hit to the head during a playoff game.

Russian swimmer Ksenia Moskvina has been suspended for six years for a second doping violation.

Dropping wrestling from the Olympics would not sit well with Vladimir Putin.

A Russian skeleton athlete has lost all the World Cup points she earned this season, and international officials are seeing if more penalties are merited after tests showed her sled was illegally manipulated.

Joshua Farris, Jason Brown and Shotaro Omori gave the United States its first 1-2-3 finish in the men's event Saturday at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships.