AFP PHOTO / PETER PARKS (Photo credit should read PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images) The Russian Olympic team’s spot atop the medal table raised the eyebrows of more than a few Olympic observers.

The next closest country to the U.S. would technically be the Soviet Union with 1,204 total medals, according to Olympedia. But since the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, Germany is the next ...

WASHINGTON, March 11. /TASS/. Russian diplomats have presented medals on the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War to veterans and residents of besieged Leningrad who ...

The three principal Soviet orders are: The Order of Lenin, The Order of the Red Banner, The Order of the Labor Red Banner. Holders of one or more decorations ride free on trolley cars everywhere ...

The Soviet Union tops the all-time list with 62 gold medals won in Olympic wrestling. Among current countries, the United States leads with 57 gold medals. Who has the most medals in Olympic wrestling ...

TOKYO, July 26. /TASS/. Athletes from Russia won five medals on the third day of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, three of them gold. As of today, the Russian national team in Tokyo, where it participates ...

REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov Athletes from the Russian Olympic Committee won 32 medals in Beijing this past February, and now they are about to cash in. According to a representative from the Russian ...