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Indian women's TT team bags bronze at BRICS Games

NEW DELHI: The Indian women's table tennis team, consisting of Poymantee Baisya, Moumita Dutta, and Yashini Sivasankar, secured the country's first medal at the current BRICS Games being held in Kazan, Russia. The trio earned a bronze medal after facing a 1-3 defeat against China in the semi-final match on…

The Times of India

Russia, largely excluded from international sports, hosts athletes at BRICS Games

Thousands of athletes in major and obscure sports are vying for medals in the Russian city of Kazan at the BRICS Games, an international competition shadowed by politics amid Russia’s exclusion from major sports events

The Independent UK

BRICS Games In Kazan: Showcasing Diverse Sports Amid Politics

The sixth BRICS Games in Kazan, Russia bring together athletes from diverse countries amid geopolitical tensions.

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'A cold cell for being a journalist': Husband of US-Russian national Alsu Kurmasheva calls for her release

Alsu Kurmasheva is a dual US-Russian citizen and journalist who has been detained by Russia since October 18, charged with failing to register as a “foreign agent” despite having travelled to Russia for a family emergency. She faces up to five years in prison if convicted. Her husband has called…

France 24

Russian court extends detention of US journalist Alsu Kurmasheva

The journalist is accused of failing to register as a ‘foreign agent’, a charge watchdogs have called ‘spurious’.

Al Jazeera

Turning away from the West, Russia seeks to strengthen economic ties with the Muslim world

The Russia-Islamic World Forum will begin in Kazan, southwest Russia, on Thursday. The two-day event was first held in 2009 and aims to strengthen economic ties between Russia and Muslim countries. In the wake of a rupture between Russia and the West, these ties are now part of a shifting…

France 24

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Secret KGB academy near Moscow trained up young men and women to seduce Brit diplomats

The KGB's top-secret facility in Kazan, east of Moscow, targeted young men and women from impoverished parts of Russia and trained them in Marxism, spycraft and seduction

Daily Mirror

Swimming-Singapore replaces Russia's Kazan as host of 2025 World Aquatics Championships

Singapore will host the World Aquatics Championships in 2025 after the Russian city of Kazan was stripped of the event over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, governing body FINA said on Thursday.

Reuters

UEFA strip Kazan of 2023 Super Cup and confirm Nations League expansion

The Russian city will no longer host European football’s season-opener

Evening Standard

Gazprom: gas supplied in full, bypassing damaged Russian export pipeline

A local unit of the Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Tuesday that gas was being supplied to customers in full via parallel pipelines following a fatal explosion in a section of the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline.

Reuters

Vladimir Putin's army MUTINY as '2,500 men face down drunk general'

The latest rebellion in Kazan highlights how disgruntled draftees are bravely challenging the authorities amid fears they face being sent to the front as cannon fodder

Daily Mirror

Gunman who slaughtered 15 people at his former school 'inspired by Columbine'

Pictures have emerged of Artem Kazantsev, who killed 15 people, at a Russian school where he had attended, and he appears to have been inspired by the Columbine shooting

Daily Mirror

Sead Haksabanovic to Celtic transfer fee revealed as Rubin Kazan forced to slash price tag

The versatile Montenegro cap is expected to be unveiled as Ange Postecoglou's latest Parkhead recruit.

Daily Record

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Drug Shortages Persist in Russia after Start of Ukraine War

First came the warnings, in messages among friends and families and on social media, to stock up on vital drugs in Russia before supplies were affected by crippling Western sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine. Then, some drugs indeed became harder to find at pharmacies in Moscow and other cities.…

Asharq Al-Awsat

FINA Bans Russian, Belarusian Athletes from 2022 World Championships

FINA has banned Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials from this year's world championships in Budapest following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, swimming's global governing body said on Wednesday. FINA had last month called off the World Junior Swimming Championships that were set to take place in the southwestern Russian city…

USA Today Sports Media Group

Former Jazz forward Jarrell Brantley being sued by Russian team for leaving

Ian Begley: Former Jazz forward Jarrell Brantley is being sued by Russian club UNICS Kazan for $250,000 after he returned home from Kazan, a city in southwest Russia, earlier this week, per a source. More details in thread below: Source: Twitter ...

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