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Image of the week: AK-47 with AK-47
Only in Russia, eh? New signee Andrei Kirilenko met with CSKA Moscow officials yesterday and took the time to pose for a few publicity shots. See below the break the pic that was clearly the highlight of the shoot, as Kirilenko poses with his deadly namesake and club president Andrei Vatutin. Just two questions: Whose […]
Russian Revolution: Ten teams announce break with Superleague to form new basketball association
In response to a “last straw,” i.e. the Russian Basketball Federation reformatting its season-ending tournament, 10 clubs in the country have announced their withdrawal from the competition and plans to make up a new Russian league. The list includes essentially all the top names in Russian professional basketball and clubs who play Euroleague, EuroCup and […]
Prokhorov on Nets: A “cheap asset with problems”
With billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov capturing the imagination of journalism in both sport and financial spheres across the planet, why wouldn’t the English-language Voice of Russia be getting in on the action? Mother Russia’s latest international celebrity got a brief writeup in Friday’s edition of the online newspaper with some good nuts-and-bolts stuff on the New […]