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Rubin Sign Tekke for the Summer

Fatih Tekke set to join Rubin in the summer

Fatih Tekke will move to Rubin Kazan this summer.

Rubin has announced on their official website that the club has signed the forward to a three-year contract effective upon the expiration of his current contract with Zenit St. Petersburg.

The 32-year-old striker had been linked with a move [...]

Zenit’s Offer for Pavlyuchenko Turned Down, Consider Tymoshchuk’s Return

In Luciano Spalletti's first press conference as Zenit's manager, Aleksandr Dyukov did most of the talking

In the press conference held today in St. Petersburg to officially introduce new coach Luciano Spalletti to the press, Zenit St. Petersburg’s president Aleksandr Dyukov admitted that the club was very interested in Tottenham Hotspur’s Roman Pavlyuchenko, but could [...]

Another Red Star Recruit, Another Pavlyuchenko Report, and Naumov’s Loko Rundown

Another Serbian recruit: Red Star's Vladimir Bogdanović (L) (REUTERS/Ivan Milutinovic)

–No relation to the sycophantic American film director, that we know of.

On a day that saw a young Serbian slip from the grasp of the RPL, another—admittedly older, and less touted—Serbian has appeared in his stead.

Red Star Belgrade [...]

More from the Love Opera, Tekke’s Travails, and a Nod to Underage Serbians

Russian clubs swooning over FK Partizan's Adem Ljajić

Iconic figures of the RPL, circa late-2000s, top our list of news stories: Vagner Love says to CSKA, implicitly, “I still want you baby”; Fatih Tekke’s feet have firmly pointed themselves toward the Black Sea; and Yuri Zhirkov’s mojo is wanted in Rome. But what about [...]

Weekend Spletnik: Banfield’s Silva Coming to Russia, Berdiýew Seeks Defenders, Tekke Set for His Exit

Santiago Silva set to continue his world tour in Russia

Our weekend spletnik (Сплетник, Russian for gossip) spans the globe in search of RFN fodder. We travel from just outside Buenos Aires, where goalscoring machine Santiago Silva appears to be on his way to Russia, to Rostov-on-Don, where FK Rostov have decided on a new [...]