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Partizan Minsk – the DIY Football Club from Belarus
By Vadzim Bylina (Вадзім Быліна) -
In Belarus - often referred to as Europe’s last dictatorship, - a democratic club has sprung up right in the hear ...
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 ...
Arsenal Kyiv – Inventing the Alternative Football Club
By Manuel Veth -
Arsenal Kyiv are an example of invented traditions, a technique commonly associated with the nation building process of the former S ...
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 ...
New Unified League – Back to the Soviet Union?
By Manuel Veth -
In the last couple of months the spectre of a new football league has haunted Europe: a new Unified League that would bring together ...