Russian Premier League

Coronavirus Outbreak: Russian club Lokomotiv Moscow's Jefferson Farfan tests positive for COVID-19

Farfan, 35, is yet to play a game in this campaign, which has eight more rounds remaining, after sustaining a knee injury last year.

Coronavirus Outbreak: Russian Premier League matches to resume from 21 June despite rising number of COVID-19 infections

Russia’s top professional football league will resume matches on 21 June after having suspended the season in mid-March because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Russian Football Union said on Friday.

Coronavirus Outbreak: Zenit St Petersburg deliver 'Player of the Month' award to Malcom via drone amidst COVID-19 shutdown

Brazilian Malcom won nearly 30% of the fan vote to pick up the award for March after Zenit build a nine-point lead at the top of the Russian Premier League standings before the season was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic

Football fans stage walkouts during Russian Premier League games to protest arrests

So-called ultras organized walkouts during at least seven Russian Premier League games this weekend after a wave of arrests targeting Spartak Moscow fans the week before.

Former big-spenders Anzhi Makhachkala have team bus seized for unpaid debts worth over $780,000

That sum would have been pocket money for Anzhi back in 2011, when billionaire then-owner Suleiman Kerimov signed forward Samuel Etoo on what was one of the world’s biggest-ever contracts

Russian Premier League: Zenit Saint Petersburg signs Barcelona winger Malcom for € 40 million

Malcom leaves after just one season at Barcelona, during which he played 24 times in all competitions and scored four goals.

Russian prosecutors urge judges to sentence Russian footballers Pavel Mamaev, Alexander Kokorin to 18 months in jail

Both players are Russian internationals though Alexander Kokorin last played for the national side in late 2017, while Pavel Mamaev was last selected in 2016

Samuel Eto'o, Willian's former club Anzhi Makhachkala on the verge of collapse and elimination from Russian top-flight

Anzhi are now second from bottom in the Premier League table, nine points adrift of 12th-placed Dynamo Moscow, who are currently the last team above the relegation play-off zone

Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Vitaly Mutko steps down as head of Russian Football Union

Vitaly Mutko in December last year also left his position as chairman of Russia's 2018 World Cup organising committee, in the wake of his Olympic ban

Russian club Spartak Moscow drop two players for liking disparaging Instagram poem about coach Massimo Carrera

Two Russian players have been dropped by Russian Premier League side Spartak Moscow for liking a poem on Instagram that questioned coach Massimo Carrera and called for his dismissal.