World Ice Hockey Championship.

Russia Post released a stamp (overprint) to commemorate the winning of World Hockey Championship of 2012 on 6th July 2012.

Russia reclaimed the title of World Ice Hockey championship on May 20, 2012 held at Helsinki, Finland.The stamp is the overprint of the earlier stamp which has the year 2008 and the face value overprinted from 8 Rubles to 12 Rubles. Also with the text overprinted as "Russia - the world champion ice hockey 2012"