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Rubin Kazan – The Pride of Tatarstan
By David Sansun -
Rubin Kazan is a club in transition. Rubin, which has won the Russian championship twice, has seen multiple members of its staff co ...
A New House is Not a Home: The Continued Demise of Spartak Moscow
By Manuel Veth -
In late summer 2014 for the first time in their history Spartak Moscow played a true home game at the newly-erected Otkrytie Arena ...
Post-Soviet Premier League XI
By Alastair Watt and Dougie Watt -
As the Soviet Union fell in the East, a new football project arose in the West which would transform English footb ...
Vitesse Arnhem and Chelsea – a Georgian-Russian Détente
By Alastair Watt -
It is perhaps a sign of globalisation in football that the transfer of a promising midfielder from a provincial Dutch club to tr ...
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 ...
Henrikh Mkhitaryan – Armenia’s Golden Nugget
By David McArdle -
Armenia’s latest World Cup Qualifier against 2012 European Championship finalists Italy was the match in which Henrikh Mkhitaryan ...