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Vladimir Putin's meeting table is a white-topped oval beech table that was installed in the Kremlin in the late 1990s, during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin. It is reported that the table is 6 metres (20 feet) long, made from a single sheet of beech wood , and supported on three hollowed wooden stands.
The annual draughts competition was held in the Russia from 1992. The first championship was held in Pyatigorsk. In 2001 the championship was not held. Championship played round-robin, since 2013 at Swiss system. Since 1998 the championship program included competitions with a shorter time control - rapid and blitz.
Note: according to Dynamo sports society, the first Soviet football championship took place in 1924, [1] while other sources (megabook.ru) indicate that the first championship took place earlier in 1923. In Moscow it was decided to consider the football tournament of the 1924 All-Union festival of physical culture as the first national ...
Russian Championship may refer to: Russian American Football Championship, the highest level of American football played in Russia; Russian Artistic Gymnastics Championships, an annual Russian national artistic gymnastics competition; Russian National Badminton Championships, a tournament organized to crown the best badminton players in Russia
The Russian Indoor Athletics Championships (Russian: Чемпионат России по лёгкой атлетике в помещении) is an annual indoor track and field competition organised by the All-Russia Athletic Federation (ARAF), which serves as the Russian national championship for the sport.
The Top Division was divided into two groups to reduce the total number of matches. The number of teams in the Top Division was reduced to 18 in 1993 and 16 in 1994. Since then, the Russian Top Division (and the Premier League since 2002) has consisted of 16 teams, except for a short-lived experiment with having two more teams in 1996 and 1997.
The competition is held under knockout format. Second Division teams start from 1/512, 1/256, or 1/128 final stage, depending on the number of teams in the corresponding Second Division zone. First Division teams enter the tournament at 1/32 final stage, and Premier League teams at 1/16 final stage. All ties are one-legged.
Twenty clubs of the former Soviet competition took place in this season. The league was combined out of six clubs of the Soviet Top League, 11 - Soviet First League, and the rest out of the promoted from the Buffer League (Center and East).