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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 ...
Shakhter Karagandy – A Steppe Away from Champions League Glory
By David McArdle -
On Tuesday 20 August, Shakhter Karagandy welcome Celtic to Kazakhstan’s Dubai-inspired nouveau capital Astana for the honour of co ...
Jano Ananidze – Rostov Revival or Demise on Don?
By Alastair Watt -
Jano Ananidze – the diminutive 20-year old Georgian attacking midfielder – left Spartak Moscow on 3 July to join fellow Russian ...
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 ...
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 ...