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Zenit St. Petersburg – The New Tsars of Russia
That Zenit St. Petersburg won their fifth league title with a 1-1 draw with FC Ufa, one of the league's outsiders, was very apt. Currently it is not a ...
The Unusual Career of Boris Rotenberg
By Saul Pope -
Dinamo Moscow's Boris Rotenberg has had an unusual career. Between March 2006 and April 2015, whilst on the books of Zenit St. Petersb ...
Russian Football Hooliganism – the Caucasian Divide
By Yan Matusevich -
Keeping politics out of football has been a FIFA slogan for years, a policy the organization strives to promote by showcasing th ...
Goodbye, Lenin! – Spartak’s Farewell to the Luzhniki
By Yusha Kozakiewicz -
Ancient Rome had its Colosseum; Constantinople, its Hippodrome; and fittingly, Moscow, which by the 1950s had for five centuri ...
Anzhi – Kremlin PR in the North Caucasus
By David McArdle -
Word association with the North Caucasus and with Dagestan in particular is changing. Instead of “insurgency”, “bombings”, “terro ...
Karpaty Lviv – the Pride of Galicia
By Manuel Veth -
Lviv and its football club Karpaty are a curious case: a city that boasts such a multi-cultural past has become the centre of natio ...
