Digest
Week 28 · 6–12 July 2026
This week: 4 texts, 0 matches. Everything in order below, with links.
Texts of the week
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When Baltika was Spartak. A big archive investigation
A badge, forgotten newspaper files, a youth title under the Spartak sports society and the club's own archives — a page of history almost nobody remembers.
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Everyone leaves, everyone stays: an ordinary day of Baltika's transfer window
A humorous piece about transfer madness.
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Ilya Kirsh: the boy from one edge of Russia who chose the long road to the other
How a Zenit academy graduate from Nakhodka, with every Russian youth team and five loans behind him, ended up at Baltika — and why he is paid for his head, not his centimetres.
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Not the main ones, but ours. What 6 July 2026 meant for local football writers
The first Winline RPL Heroes media evening in Moscow, and the first award category the league has ever given to local authors — one per club.