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08.09.2008, 13:52
Sportswear firm Adidas has signed a sponsorship deal with the Russian Football Federation until 2018. The company will supply RFU teams including the national and Olympic football teams.
16.12.2008, 22:13
The Russian Football Union has named CSKA’s midfielder, Yury Zhirkov, the country’s best footballer of the year.
30.09.2008, 13:44
You’ve heard of the golden goal, and even the silver goal – but how about the holy goal? A football team of Catholic priests have won the first ever match against a team of Italian parliamentarians on Monday, Vatican radio proudly reports. The
13.10.2010, 18:52
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As any Russian babushka knows, the idea of restoring the USSR is absurd, said Putin’s spokesman in response to a warning, in The Times, against a desire Russia has of restoring its influence on the post-soviet space.
31.07.2009, 11:45
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CSTO’s plan for a military base in Kyrgyzstan is unlikely to cause a conflict of interest with NATO after the decision to convert the US Manas base in into a support facility, says military analyst Dmitry Evstafyev.
01.06.2010, 11:34
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Dmitry Medvedev has opened the Russia-EU summit in the southern Russian town of Rostov-on-Don. Within the three-hour meeting the sides are to discuss the economy, modernization and security.
04.12.2009, 17:42
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Twenty years ago on a ship in the Mediterranean Sea, US and Soviet leaders formally acknowledged the end of the Cold War. But how much has the world really changed?
31.12.2009, 15:41
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Analysts and the media are summing up the results of the Russian foreign policy in 2009.
05.10.2010, 15:20
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The Belarusian opposition has welcomed President Medvedev’s criticism of Lukashenko and vowed to make Moscow’s position heard in Strasburg, where the pre-election situation in the ex-Soviet republic is being discussed.
09.10.2009, 17:43
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The leaders of former Soviet republics have gathered in Moldova for the CIS Summit on Friday. And though four of them didn’t show up, this is normal, says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Published: 18 January, 2009, 09:35
The 2009 football year has kicked off in Moscow with the 17th CIS and Baltic States Champions Cup. Senior officials from Fifa and Uefa, soccer’s main governing bodies, were in town to enjoy the proceedings.
