Digest

The week in five minutes

What went out on the site and in the channel this week, how Baltika played and what comes next. One page per week — easy to forward to someone who missed it.

  1. Week 38 · 14–20 September 2026

    3 texts · 1 match

    Mikhail Ryadno at Baltika: why the defender needed the move

  2. Week 37 · 7–13 September 2026

    4 texts · 1 match

    Baltika rescued a point. But why did it need rescuing at all?

  3. Week 36 · 31 August — 6 September 2026

    3 texts · 1 match

    300 matches before the Premier League. How Ilya Petrov was led around the RPL for ten years

  4. Week 35 · 24–30 August 2026

    5 texts · 2 matches

    Why can't rich Lokomotiv buy a player while poor Baltika can?

  5. Week 34 · 17–23 August 2026

    3 texts

    The money is there. Will the team stay?

  6. Week 33 · 10–16 August 2026

    3 texts · 1 match

    Maksimenko plays on his line. That is Baltika's main chance on 16 August

  7. Week 32 · 3–9 August 2026

    1 text · 1 match

    Stefan Kovac, the most mysterious footballer of today's Baltika

  8. Week 31 · 27 July — 2 August 2026

    6 texts · 1 match

    No ball, no Borisko, no Andrade. How Baltika beat Dynamo Moscow for the first time

  9. Week 30 · 20–26 July 2026

    2 texts · 1 match

    Baltika scored against CSKA after 35 seconds — and lost. Match review and ratings for every Baltika player

  10. Week 29 · 13–19 July 2026

    3 texts

    34 countries, almost 150 foreigners and not a single Argentine. Baltika's history through its imports

  11. Week 28 · 6–12 July 2026

    4 texts

    When Baltika was Spartak. A big archive investigation

  12. Week 27 · 29 June — 5 July 2026

    4 texts

    The football of our childhood: two bricks, a plantain leaf and crocodile sneakers

  13. Week 26 · 22–28 June 2026

    3 texts

    Why Baltika goes to Isparta: not a beach but altitude, isolation and Talalaev's calculation

  14. Week 25 · 15–21 June 2026

    3 texts

    How Turkey crashed out beautifully — again. The story of a man looking for a temporary national team

  15. Week 24 · 8–14 June 2026

    3 texts

    The first Kalmyk in the national team. How Beveev crawled his way there

  16. Week 23 · 1–7 June 2026

    4 texts

    Eight years ago Modric, Iniesta and Courtois played here. Now Trinidad and Tobago are coming. An interactive guide

  17. Week 22 · 25–31 May 2026

    6 texts

    Dad, they shout so loudly here. Baltika through the eyes of a six-year-old

  18. Week 21 · 18–24 May 2026

    5 texts

    I never finished the Panini USA 94 album as a kid. Now I am collecting World Cup 2026

  19. Week 20 · 11–17 May 2026

    4 texts

    Baltika closes the season. And this is a match for Kaliningrad

  20. Week 19 · 4–10 May 2026

    8 texts

    Lokomotiv — Baltika 1:0. A match with a deceptively simple scoreline

  21. Week 18 · 27 April — 3 May 2026

    9 texts

    An island of found hopes and lost points: how Baltika got tangled in Artiga's nets

  22. Week 17 · 20–26 April 2026

    6 texts

    Port clubs: what Baltika, Le Havre, Hamburg and the others born of the sea have in common

  23. Week 16 · 13–19 April 2026

    3 texts

    Baltika has shown it can hurt Krasnodar. Can it do it again?

  24. Week 15 · 6–12 April 2026

    4 texts

    Baltika had the will for a comeback. It lacked the team to close the game

  25. Week 14 · 30 March — 5 April 2026

    3 texts

    Without Talalaev it got quieter. Not worse

  26. Week 13 · 23–29 March 2026

    6 texts

    Kevin Andrade is one of the most underrated defenders in the RPL. He just plays for Baltika