Russia to Host Hockey Worlds

Moscow and St. Petersburg won the right to stage the 2016 world ice hockey championship on Friday, the latest in a series of international sporting events to be awarded to the world’s largest country. “The event will take place from April 29 to May 15, 2016, and coincide with the 70-year anniversary of Russian ice hockey,” the sport’s world governing body said on its web site. The Russians had been favorites to land the 2016 […]