An 18-year-old Ukrainian girl who had been taken to Russia against her will by her parents was forced to learn the Russian national anthem by heart and sing it under a scorching hot sun by Russian ...

M O S C O W, Dec. 26 -- The tune that Russians once sang in praise of the “unbreakable” Soviet Union is their anthem again, a decade after the union broke up. Russian President Vladimir Putin today ...

A Russian lawmaker who refused to stand when the Russian anthem started playing has been handed a summons to fight in Ukraine. Alexander Lependin, deputy of the Maloyaroslavets District Assembly of ...

Brittney Griner played for Team USA in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, winning gold both times. But the WNBA star admits the 2024 Paris Olympics will be "different" and ...

Officials in Russia's North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria said on July 22 that eight local residents have each been ordered to pay a 3,000 ruble ($34) fine for "violating regulations on the ...

Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner recently returned to the court for the first time since her detention in Russia, playing 17 minutes in a preseason game against the Los Angeles Sparks. She ...

Several months after being freed from Russia, WNBA star Brittney Griner has changed her position on the U.S. national anthem. Griner made her official return to the court for the Phoenix Mercury on ...

Brittney Griner will stand for the national anthem during the 2023 WNBA season, her agent says. The star wants to highlight the "uniquely American freedoms" she lost while in Russian detainment.

MOSCOW, April 28. /TASS/. Russia’s national anthem is very desirable to be heard at international sports tournaments, but the victories of the country’s athletes are by far more important as ‘they can ...

M O S C O W, Nov. 30 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin wants Russians to hum Stalin’s old anthem in the new millennium, but to sing of a flying Russian eagle instead of an “unbreakable” Soviet Union ...