Russian Athletics News. Yuriy Borzakovskiy finished second in the men's 800m at the Herculis, an IAAF Super Grand Prix meeting in Monaco, clocking his SB of 1:43.58

Russian Athletics News. Russian Athletics has announced a preliminary list of the national team for the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics on 15-23 August in Berlin, Germany

Violent attacks against Russia's leading human rights activists continued this week, as one leader was found dead and another was shot in the face and seriously injured.

Boris Nemtsov, a leader of the Solidarity democratic movement, found a tracking device attached to his car. Nemtsov is leading the Solidarity campaign to the Moscow City Duma in October.