Voice #1: Nikolai Tolstykh — president of the Russian Football Union (RFU). Voice #2: Yevgeny Giner — president and co-owner of CSKA football club. Voice #3: Sergei Stepashin — former chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation (Russia’s state audit office). Voice #4: Vladimir Yakunin — president of Russian Railways. Voice #5: Olga Smorodskaya — president of Lokomotiv football club. Voice #6: Alexander Dyukov — chairman of the management board of Gazprom Neft, president of Zenit football club. Voice #7: Suleiman Kerimov — owner of Anzhi football club. Voice #8: Vyacheslav Koloskov — honorary president of the RFU. Voice #9: Sergei Pryadkin — president of the Russian Premier League. Voice #10: Sergei Galitsky — owner of the Magnit retail chain and Krasnodar football club.
Do read it — this is the text of the day, obviously. It’s about a meeting of the Russian Football Union on what to do about football in Crimea.
It’s practically a play, and every part of it is brilliant — from Yakunin recalling that sanctions had already been “slapped on” him, to former Accounts Chamber chief Stepashin with his “good Lord, half the country has its money in offshore accounts.”
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