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Bring on Brazil: World Cup fever grips disbelieving Russia
AFP, Published on 02/07/2018
» MOSCOW: Russian fans danced in the streets of Kaliningrad on the Baltic and kissed strangers in Vladivostok in the Far East after their team defied all expectations to reach the World Cup quarter-finals.
Olympics: Flame lit for Sochi 2014 Winter Games
AFP, Published on 29/09/2013
» The Olympic flame was lit in Ancient Olympia in Greece on Sunday and began its long journey towards the opening ceremony of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games which begin on February 7.
New space crew joins ISS on Olympic torch mission
AFP, Published on 26/09/2013
» An American and two Russians Thursday boarded the International Space Station after a lightning journey from Earth, on a mission that will see the Olympic torch for the 2014 Sochi Games taken into space for the first time.
Russian cosmonauts to take torch to space
AFP, Published on 25/06/2013
» Russian cosmonauts will in November take the Olympic torch to the International Space Station and on a space walk ahead of the 2014 winter games hosted in Sochi, Russia's space agency announced Monday.