Kanu Nwakwo robbed of £8, 250 cash in Russia

About £8, 250 cash was stolen from the suitcase of Nigerian international, Kanu Nwakwo, in Moscow after he arrived from London. The Sun reports that Russian police said the money taken by two loaders at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. Kanu who won the Premier League title with London side, Arsenal, was in Russia to play in […]

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1.7m World Cup tickets sold – FIFA

FIFA says almost 1.7 million tickets have been sold for the World Cup in Russia after some 400,000 were snapped up in the latest sales stage which ended on Tuesday. The ruling body FIFA said that 394,433 tickets were sold during a first-come, first-served window since March 13. Russians dominated by buying 216,134 of them, […]

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MMM founder, Sergei Mavrodi dies in Moscow

According to media reports, founder of the MMM series of financial pyramid schemes, Sergei Mavrodi, has died in Moscow. Mavrodi was taken to a city hospital from a bus stop overnight Monday after he felt weakness and pain in the chest area, reports Moskovsky Komsomolets. The emergency team has failed to save his life. “He […]

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