Kevin O'Flynn: The Uefa Cup final will be the biggest in St Petersburg's history - but a game they played in 1942 will be remembered with as much pride
It is outrageous that the incredible tale of the English academic who solved a Spartak Moscow defensive crisis has been air-brushed from history books.
More than half a billion pounds worth of art, including works by Picasso, Monet and Van Gogh, were held briefly in Switzerland yesterday after a long dispute between the Swiss firm Noga and the Russian government over alleged unpaid debts.
The killing of the Chechen rebel leader, Aslan Maskhadov, was unexpected news for the Russian papers, especially as it turned out that he really was dead.
Russian investigators have finally admitted that terrorists were almost certainly responsible for the destruction of the two passenger planes which crashed on Tuesday, five days before the Chechen presidential election.
Gay Russian teens communicate in secret to avoid law on 'propaganda'