MOSCOW, July 17. /TASS/. Russia is ready to host the Olympic Games for a third time, and the country will certainly submit bids for the Summer and Winter Games, Russia’s top sports official told TASS on Thursday. "We will be certainly be submitting our bids in the future and will be ready to organize them [the Olympics] at the highest possible level as we did on the two previous occasions," Mikhail Degtyarev, the Russian Sports Minister and the president of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), said in an interview with TASS. "Sooner or later, we will restore all relations and pave the way for the Olympic Games and, I am sure we will put in bids to host both the Winter and Summer Games," he continued. In 1980 the former Soviet Union hosted the Summer Olympic Games in the country’s capital of Moscow and in 2014, Russia’s Black Sea southern resort city of Sochi hosted the Winter Olympic Games. "Our country is one of the most hospitable ones and we have the required infrastructure," Degtyarev continued. "The [2018 FIFA] World Cup still brings up warm memories globally about how friendly Russia was, how people partied and how they rooted for their teams in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Volgograd, Kaliningrad and other cities." "I have just arrived from Lausanne, and I was there at the museum of the International Olympic Committee, where the memory of the Moscow and Sochi Games still persists - postcards, badges, lots of exhibits, and mascots," Degtyarev said. "These are historical events, and the memory of them remains in the hearts of millions," the Russian sports official pointed out. "What do the Olympic Games teach us? There must be no boycotts. The Olympic Movement must unite," Degtyarev continued. "We had the boycott in 1980 and later we announced our own boycott - it was all wrong back then, just as it is today with regard to the discrimination our national athletes face. We must leave it all behind," Russia’s sports and Olympics chief added.