MOSCOW (Reuters) – Anzhi Makhachkala beat Lokomotiv Moscow 2-1 on Monday, hours after two car bombs killed at least three people and wounded dozens more in the Dagestan capital.

It was one of the deadliest attacks this year in a region plagued with violence linked to an Islamist insurgency.

MOSCOW, May 20 (Reuters) – Anzhi Makhachkala beat Lokomotiv Moscow 2-1 on Monday, hours after two car bombs killed at least three people and wounded dozens more in the Dagestan capital.

It was one of the deadliest attacks this year in a region plagued with violence linked to an Islamist insurgency.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Wrestling has introduced drastic changes designed to keep the ancient sport in the Olympic programme, the newly-elected president of the world governing body (FILA) said on Saturday.

More categories for women, eliminating draws and cutting down the number of competitors are just some of the initiatives being introduced as wrestling battles to salvage its Olympic status after the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s executive board made a surprise recommendation to drop it from the 2020 Games programme.

MOSCOW, May 18 (Reuters) – Wrestling has introduced drastic changes designed to keep the ancient sport in the Olympic programme, the newly-elected president of the world governing body (FILA) said on Saturday.

More categories for women, eliminating draws and cutting down the number of competitors are just some of the initiatives being introduced as wrestling battles to salvage its Olympic status after the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s executive board made a surprise recommendation to drop it from the 2020 Games programme.

MOSCOW, May 18 (Reuters) – He has long been nicknamed as the ‘Russian Mourinho’ but until this week CSKA Moscow coach Leonid Slutsky appeared to have very little in common with the outspoken Portuguese known the world over as the ‘Special One’.

Yet on Saturday, the usually shy Slutsky was being hailed as CSKA’s own ‘Special One’ after he finally shed his loser’s tag to lead the army club to their first league title since 2006.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – CSKA Moscow sealed the Russian title with a game to spare following a scrappy 0-0 home draw with Kuban Krasnodar on Saturday.

The lone point was enough to give the army side their first league crown since 2006 and 11th in the club’s history as they now lead last season’s champions Zenit St Petersburg by six points.

MOSCOW, May 18 (Reuters) – CSKA Moscow sealed the Russian title with a game to spare following a scrappy 0-0 home draw with Kuban Krasnodar on Saturday.

The lone point was enough to give the army side their first league crown since 2006 and 11th in the club’s history as they now lead last season’s champions Zenit St Petersburg by six points.

MOSCOW, May 1 (Reuters) – Russian basketball officials, impressed by the college game’s huge popularity in the United States, hope to imitate their former Cold War adversaries by creating a Europe-wide student league.

Formed last September with the help of Russia’s second-largest bank VTB, the International Students Basketball League (ISBL) has quickly grown into a top-notch competition, with 26 collegiate teams from the Baltics to the Far East taking part.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Olympic discus silver medalist Darya Pishchalnikova has been given a 10-year doping ban after failing a drugs test for the second time, the Russian athletics federation (VFLA) said on Tuesday.

A sample taken from Pishchalnikova in May last year was re-tested and proved positive for the anabolic steroid oxandrolone, the VFLA said on its website (www.rusathletics.com).

MOSCOW, April 30 (Reuters) – Olympic discus silver medallist Darya Pishchalnikova has been given a 10-year doping ban after failing a drugs test for the second time, the Russian athletics federation (VFLA) said on Tuesday.

A sample taken from Pishchalnikova in May last year was re-tested and proved positive for the anabolic steroid oxandrolone, the VFLA said on its website (www.rusathletics.com).