Chelsea wing-back Yury Zhirkov has been handed the midfield slot vacated by the injured Ramires against Spartak Moscow in today's Champions League Group F clash in the Luzhniki Stadium.

RUSSIAN prosecutors said yesterday they had detained 10 suspects in the murder of reporter Anna Politkovskaya, but that the killing was masterminded from abroad by anti-Kremlin forces trying to discredit Russia.

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Four jobless Russians in search of scrap metal dismantled generators at a nuclear-powered lighthouse in Russia’s Far North, exposing themselves to dangerous doses of radiation.