With Rangers doing little to trouble Vyacheslav Malafeev in the Zenit goal, the Russians were doing all the pressing and Zyrianov screwed wide of the near post after being set up for the shot by Roman Shirokov.
And the one heroic figure that stands up for all Russians today in the opinion polls is Marshal Zhukov, the victor of the Battle of Kursk in 1943.
The Russians all speak English, flags representing the guests' nationalities fly above the camp and the tundra is kept absolutely spotless.
NATO, after all, has been assuring everyone that it is now a defence-cum-peacekeeping outfit that threatens absolutely nobody, least of all its old adversaries the Russians (among whose fellow-Slavs are the Serbs).
If, at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, for example, which you and I remember because we were around, it had all gone wrong and the Russians had put a bolt from the blue on London and Mr MacMillan was killed, the decision whether to launch the B-force, the B-bombers with their hydrogen bombs, would have gone to the Chief of Bomber Command, an airman in uniform.
This is part of the reason Russians all have dash cams in their cars.
Nick is one of the cultural touchstones up here, something Sledge and I and the Russians can all get behind, whereas E.
The victory in World War II is one of the things that unites all Russians, our correspondent adds.
An opinion poll this week shows that more than half of all Russians do not support the reductions.
" Snob, he says in an e-mail, is about giving "curious, well-traveled, prosperous Russians living all over the world a place to talk about the things that interest them.
And the Russians said, well all right, if the Iranians want to possess the whole, what's called the nuclear fuel cycle, that is, to have a guaranteed stream of nuclear fuel for power plants, which involves enriching uranium, we'll do it in conjunction with Iran, but in Russia.
As the United States has no idea how many SS-18 missiles the Russians actually have in their inventory, even the monitored destruction of all "declared" heavy ICBMs may leave Moscow in a position to utilize these silos in the future to launch SS-18s.
He claims the reason he knows all this is because Russians have taken over his computer and he can see everything they are doing.
But the cooperation that we will get from the Russians, and the signal that will be sent to the world on nonproliferation, when all these other things are going on which threaten to increase nuclear proliferation, is very important.
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All of the major nationals are based in Moscow, but many Russians living in the regions prefer to take local papers instead.
But the simple fact is that a significant and rapidly growing number of Russians have free access to the internet and to all of the information contained on it.
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Two out of three Russian men are smokers, according to World Bank figures, That's twice the ratio in the U.S. and U.K. In all, Russians smoke 370 billion cigarettes a year.
However I certainly think that, regardless of any disagreements about the proper way to deal with Putin or debates about what the Russian government ought to do, we can all be thankful that Russians are leading longer and healthier lives.
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The Russians talk about their childhoods incessantly, when they talk at all.
While some (though certainly not all) of the population losses in Estonia and Latvia can be attributed to the emigration of ethnic Russians, no such explanation is possible for Bulgaria, Romania, or Lithuania (which unlike the other Baltics never had a sizable ethnic Russian population).
And, for all its strengths, this book never succeeds in explaining the breadth of Pushkin's potent appeal to Russians of every period and political persuasion.
All that being said, some vodkas are better than others, and this is especially important if, like the Russians, you drink yours unadulterated.
Vostok Station was set up by the Russians in 1956, and their seismic soundings soon suggested there was an area of liquid underneath all the ice.
Before the latest Balkan war, all in the region had been hoping for a long period of boredom, in which historical grudges, especially those involving Russians and their former empire, would fade and economic ties across the Baltic Sea would continue their sprightly growth.
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