News and press-releases

Circa 100 representatives of leading TV companies from around the world have arrived in Sochi to participate in the first International Meeting of Broadcasters of the Olympic Games 2014.

The International Festival “Epiphany Week” of the Sochi 2014 Cultural Olympiad will culminate on the 29 January with G. Rossini’s opera, “The Barber of Seville”.

The Russian delegation, led by the Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, has arrived in Innsbruck for the Winter Youth Olympic Games, one of the key Olympic milestones before Sochi hosts the Winter Games in 2014.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and McDonald's Corporation announced today that McDonald’s has extended its global sponsorship agreement until 2020.

The Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee today named Baltika Breweries as the official beer supplier to the Winter Games after President and CEO, Dmitry Chernyshenko, signed an agreement with Isaac Sheps, CEO of Baltika Breweries and Senior Vice President of Eastern European region, Carlsberg Group.

International Paralympic Committee (IPC) CEO Xavier Gonzalez and IPC Paralympic Games Senior Manager Thanos Kostopoulos travelled to Moscow to meet with the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee for the last Executive Project Review of the year.

The 15th International Paralympic Committee (IPC) General Assembly came to a close in Beijing, China on Sunday (11 December) with members receiving a review of the last Paralympic Winter Games as well as updates on the next four editions of the Games.

The final International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board (EB) meeting of 2011 wrapped up today in Lausanne with a broad range of decisions being made.

As part of the just started-off “Decade of disabled people” there are set to be a series of events held in Moscow aimed at changing the attitudes of Russian society towards disabled people.