RUSSIA

"Football Union of Russia"
Luznetskaya Nabereshnaya, 8
Moscow, 119871,
Russia

(007-095) 201-08-34

Official website

Anthem

Goalkeepers Ruslan Nigmatullin Alexander Filimonov Stanislav Cherchesov

Defenders Yuri Nikiforov Viktor Onopko Igor Chugainov Yuri Kovtun Vyacheslav Dayev Andrei Solomatin Dmitry Sennikov

Midfielders Alexander Mostovoi Valery Karpin Dmitry Alenichev Yegor Titov Dmitry Khokhlov Sergei Semak Alexei Smertin Marat Izmailov Igor Semshov

Strikers Vladimir Beschastnykh Dmitry Sychyov Alexander Kerzhakov Ruslan Pimenov

I think they are strong enough to get through this group. Dark horses, in fact.

(14/06/02 09:54:23) They should've been strong enough - but they weren't!

Russia - sacred our empire,
Russia - favourite our country.
Mighty will, great glory -
Yours virtue on all times!

CHORUS
Sing to the Fatherland, ours free,
The brotherly century peoples union ,
By ancestors the given national wisdom!
Ours Glorious land! We are proud of you!

From the southern seas up to polar edge
Our woods and fields were stretched.
One you on light! One you such -
Native land, stored By the god!

CHORUS

Wide open space for dream and for life
Future to us open of year.
Us the force is given by our fidelity Motherland.
So was, so is and so will be always!

Belorussian Borsch

300 g beef.
500 g pork with bones.
100 g sausages.
500 g beet.
350 g potatoes.
100 g carrot.
30 g parsley.
100 g onion.
50 g tomato paste.
30 g fat.
20 g flour.
20 g sugar.
20 g 6% vinegar.
sour cream.
salt.

Cook beef with pork bones until done. Julienne carrot, chop parsley and onion. Then blanch onion, after that add tomato paste to it and stew for 10 minutes. Put cubed potatoes in broth. Bring to boil, then add boiled, peeled and julienned beet, fried until golden flour, carrot and onion and cook for 15 minutes. Then add sugar and vinegar, salt to taste. Serve with meat, sausages and sour cream.

FAMOUS PEOPLE

Peter the Great, Lenin, Stalin, Tolstoy, Uri Gargarin, Olga Korbut, Tchaikovky, Rachmaninov, Rudolf Nureyev,