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All statistics correct as of 11 November 2018. 19 Russian Premier League is the 27th season of the premier football competition in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the 16th under the current Russian Premier League name. The new logo was presented on 24 July 2018, there was no title sponsor announced for the season. The 16 teams will play a round-robin tournament whereby each team plays each one of the other teams twice, once at home and once away. Thus, a total of 240 matches will be played, with 30 matches played by each team. Krasnodar 3 pts, 0 away goals.

Arsenal 1 pt, 0 away goals. Head-to-head points: Rubin 4, Akhmat 1. Ural 1 pt, 0 away goals. For upcoming matches, an “a” indicates there is an article about the match. The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. 1: Team played last season in the Russian Football National League.

ОЛЕГ КОНОНОВ, ДОБРО ПОЖАЛОВАТЬ В АРСЕНАЛ! Subscribe to our Facebook, Twitter to stay updated for the new posts. Probably the Russian guys are busy watching football world cup. I see potatoes are not only used for making Vodka, they also shoot video with them! Not ashamed or confused to be Women. The Night Wolves: Russian Motorcycle Club or Kremlin Militia? Members of the Night Wolves motorcycle club arrive to lay a wreath at the Soviet World War II memorial in Treptow park to commemorate the 71st anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Red Army over Nazi Germany on May 9, 2016 in Berlin, Germany.

Micallef is a best-selling military history and world affairs author, and keynote speaker. The Night Wolves, Nochnye Volki in Russian, are a Russian motorcycle club that over the last two decades has morphed into a pan-European corporation and a mini-conglomerate of about 60 different businesses. Their activities include consumer organizations, entertainment, security services and a variety of manufacturing businesses ranging from motorcycle accessories to clothing. They have also been implicated in several Kremlin-sponsored covert operations in eastern Ukraine and in the Russian takeover of Crimea. And they were suspected of being involved in the assassination of Milo Djukanovic, the president of Montenegro. The assassination is now seen as an attempt to derail the country’s entry into NATO. Nicknamed Putin’s Angels, they are widely seen as a sort of militia that operates in a variety of roles at the Kremlin’s behest while, at the same time, affording the Russian government the luxury of denying any responsibility for their actions.

The group, many of its leaders and several of its affiliated companies, has been placed on sanctions lists by the U. The Night Wolves have openly boasted about their close ties to Vladimir Putin. He is an honorary member and has often gone on motorcycle rides with the group, although he rides a specially modified three-wheel Harley Davidson motorcycle, rather than the regular Harleys that the group favors. The group prides itself on its strident Russian nationalism, a curious mixture of Soviet and traditional Russian iconography. They proudly declare themselves to be anti-feminist and anti-gay, reject what they see as the debilitating corruption of Western society, and emphasize their devotion to the Russian Orthodox Church. They acknowledge Vladimir Putin as their hero, openly declaring that they are willing to die for him. They decorate their clubhouses, emblems and clothing with pictures of Joseph Stalin, depicting him as a Russian hero and role model for Russian youth.

August 2018, the group opened a motorcycle clubhouse in Slovakia, prompting warnings from Andrej Kiska, the president of Slovakia, and from Slovakian intelligence agencies, especially after Radio Free Europe released drone footage showing that the clubhouse concealed a tank and an armored personnel carrier. Who exactly are the Night Wolves? Russia’s arsenal of unconventional, “new generation warfare”? Finally, are they a threat to the political stability of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics, or just another example of the Kremlin’s smoke-and-mirrors military capabilities?

The Origins of the Night Wolves The Night Wolves began as a mix of Western rock music fans — mostly metal heads — and motorcycle enthusiasts in the early 1980s Moscow underground scene. Starting in 1983, they began to organize what were then illegal rock concerts in Moscow. After the onset of Perestroika under Soviet President and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, the group became the USSR’s first official motorcycle club in 1989. The group was organized by Alexander Zaldostanov, a former dental surgeon who goes by the moniker “The Surgeon. Zaldostanov, a Ukrainian by birth, grew up in Sevastopol in Crimea. His mother was a Russian doctor and his father a Georgian.

Originally, the club was patterned after the American motorcycle club Hells Angels. The Night Wolves rode Harley Davidson motorcycles. They adopted the Hells Angels rule book and had it translated into Russian. In August 1991, the Night Wolves helped man barricades around the Russian parliament when hard-line communists dispatched tanks to try to topple the Gorbachev government. Zaldostanov was later awarded a medal by Russian President Boris Yeltsin for his role in helping to thwart the August coup attempt. Over the 1990s, the club expanded into a variety of related businesses, opening a rock club called The Sexton, modeled after a club with the same name in West Berlin where Zaldostanov had worked as a bouncer before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The group launched a “Wolf Wear” clothing line, as well as a tattoo parlor and bike shop.

The Night Wolves also began to offer security for local Russian rock bands. Their activities quickly evolved into security services and protection for businesses trying to avoid shakedowns from local police and gangsters. Some have claimed the group became its own protection racket. Starting in the early 2000s, however, Zaldostanov began to transform the group into a staunchly Russian nationalistic organization.

In the process, the organization became increasingly anti-Western. It also forged strong ties with the Russian Orthodox Church. About this time, the group began sponsoring motorcycle pilgrimages to Orthodox holy sites. They also began using the imagery of a 14th century Orthodox monk named Alexander Peresvet. His death, in hand-to-hand fighting with the Mongols, was said to have inspired a small Russian force to defeat a much larger Mongol Army in the battle that followed.