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2011 Asian Five Nations under way

27 Apr 2011

The Asian Rugby Five Nations Championship opening round was held on the Easter weekend. Japan, Kazakhstan and Hong Kong remain from last year but Korea was dropped to the lower division for the first time, replaced by Sri Lanka. The other team to make up the five is United Arab Emirates. This is the reconstituted [...]

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Russia has a squad of 31 players and all play in the Russian domestic competition except four who play in France. In the game against Portugal, the only French based players were Andrei Ostrikov who played in the second row and Konstantin Rachkov who came on as a second half replacement as flyhalf. The other 20 all were from the Russian national league.

European Nations Rugby Cup: Portugal upsets Russia

14 Feb 2011

Rodney, My article is not "inflametory, derogitory and down right wrong to write “the same Edgard Taturian has again caused a split,”. it is purely stating a fact. Edgard and Igor Taturian split from the Sovier Rugby Union in 1991 because they wanted professional rugby and Rugby was amateur at that time. They wanted to form an Association of the Oval Ball, which originally was to include Aussie rules (but this did not eventuate). From the split, he gained a lot of support and rtgby league eas founded in Russia which eventually became the Russian Rugbilig Federation. He has again split from the federation because he is dissatisfied the way it is being run. That is his perogative and is not derogatory at all. It is up to the community as to whether he is successful or not. The RLFR is still in existence and held its AGM on 5th February and in the process of restructuring with the help of the RLEF.

Russian rugby league at crisis point

15 Mar 2010

It is not just Asia where Rugby is spreading. Below are the tournaments listed for games to be played in June and July this year:- CAR AFRICA CUP Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Cameroon, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Botswana and Namibia. CAR TROPHY Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Togo, Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Congo, Burundi , Rwanda, Tanzania, Reunion, Mauritius and Swaziland. CAR DEVELOPMENT TROPHY Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Egypt, Gabon, Central African Republic and Chad. The countries participating in the Asian Five Nations which doubles as the RWC2011 Asian qualifier are:- Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan and Arabian Gulf. The following Asian nations are to fight out the lower divisions with promotion and relegation rules:- Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Sri Lanka, Thailand, China, Malaysia, India, Pakistan playing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Philippines, Guam, Indonesia, Iran, Laos. Brunei , Cambodia, Macau, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Qatar, Kyrgyzstan and Jordan. There are several women’s sevens tournaments arranged as well to emphasise the spread of the game.

Rugby growing rapidly in the Asian region

3 Mar 2010

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