Russia competed as the host nation at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, held between 7–16 March 2014.

In December 2014, German public broadcaster ARD aired a documentary which made wide-ranging allegations that Russia organized a state-run doping program which supplied their athletes with performance-enhancing drugs.

[2] In May 2016, The New York Times published allegations by the former director of Russia's anti-doping laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov, that a conspiracy of corrupt anti-doping officials, FSB intelligence agents, and compliant Russian athletes used banned substances to gain an unfair advantage during the Games.

[3][4][5][6] On 9 December 2016, Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren published the second part of his independent report.

[10] Men Women Para-snowboarding is making its debut at the Winter Paralympics and it will be placed under the Alpine skiing program during the 2014 Games.