Russian pair have the final word
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The Russians are assured of their third different women&#39;s champion in successive grand slams at Flushing Meadows today, Elena Dementieva and Svetlana Kuznetsova having wiped the floor with their American opposition in yesterday&#39;s semi-finals.
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No one in the Olympic Stadium could possibly know it at the time, but the men&#39;s long jump final last night was over almost as soon as it began.
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Anastasia Myskina will take on Elena  Dementieva in the Kremlin Cup final in a repeat of their  all-Russian French Open final after the pair won their  semi-finals in similar fashion on Saturday.
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The Russians completed the year of their tennis revolution amid a surge of emotion that felt almost like national redemption. Three grand slam titles and seven players in the women&#39;s world top 20 were followed
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World champion Evgeni Plushenko and former world champion Irina Slutskaya won Grand Prix Final titles Saturday, and a Chinese pair won before home fans.
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Irina Slutskaya and Evgeni Plushenko returned to figure skating&#39;s summit by winning the Grand Prix Finals on Saturday, a little more than a year before the 2006 Turin Olympics.
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Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova is certain she will be cleared of doping allegations.
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By Mark Landler and John Markoff John Markoff reported from San Francisco. Steven Lee Myers contributed reporting from Moscow.
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TURIN, Italy  - Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov  retained their European ice dancing crown on Friday to keep  alive Russia's chances of sweeping all four titles in this  year's championships.
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France have a mighty tall order when they defend their Fed Cup title against hot favourites Russia at the weekend. The Russians, out to capture their first Fed
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Russian and US spacemen have landed safely back on Earth after completing their mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Russians Yuri Shargin and Gennady Padalka and American Michael Fincke touched
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Bob and Mike Bryan win their doubles match to reduce Russia's lead to 2-1 in the Davis Cup.
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CSKA Moscow beat Paris St Germain 2-0 in a scrappy Champions League encounter on Wednesday to move temporarily to the top of Group H. Sergei Semak put the Russians ahead with a
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Russia&#39;s Maria Sharapova reacts after winning a point against Russia&#39;s Elena Dementieva during their semi final match at the Swisscom Challenge Tennis Tournament in Zurich-Kloten, Switzerland, Saturday, Oct 23, 2004.
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A Soyuz space capsule containing a US-Russian crew has successfully landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan. Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and American astronaut Mike Fincke had left the international space
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It went down to the wire but in the end  the Russian turned up to play.
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Text of the statement dictated by former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko before he died and released by his friends on Friday: