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FIFA Council recognized the last in Russia the World Cup the best in history, told Council member Alexei Sorokin.

The Japanese team for the IAAF/Trinidad Alfonso World Half Marathon Championships Valencia 2018 will be hoping to earn their 10th successive medal at the championships on 24 March.

The Gazprom Management Committee reviewed the information about the Company’s ongoing efforts to develop the domestic natural gas vehicle (NGV) market and about the readiness of the NGV refueling infrastructure for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™.

On 20–27 February, Minister for Foreign Affairs Timo Soini will visit Tokyo, Seoul and the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.

Speaking of the Chinese government's recent trade and banking curtailments with North Korea, political science professor T.J. Pempel says: "I think that the Chinese are sending a signal to the North that they are skating on thin ice."

Prime Minister Pavel Filip participated at the official opening of the fifth issue of DOR Program – Diaspora. Origins. Returns. which gathered a hundred Diaspora children from 14 countries today.

After the drama in the men's 4x100m when Bolt pulled up with cramp on the last leg, it was a similar story for Jamaica in the women's 4x400m, as second-leg runner Anneisha McLaughlin-Whilby pulled up injured while in second place.

A traditional competition of professional skills among truck drivers working in divisions and organizations of KAMAZ (part of Rostec State Corporation) was held at the auto giant.

The KAMAZ-master team that had won a triumphant victory in the 2017 Silk Way Rally returned to the home city of Naberezhnye Chelny. It should be recalled that the crews led by Dmitry Sotnikov, Anton Shibalov and Ayrat Mardeev swept the shole podium.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin congratulated the motor racing KAMAZ-master team on winning the trucks category at the 2017 Silk Way Rally and noted the Russian KAMAZ vehicles' unrivalled possibilities.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was presented with the highest ranking award of the World Swimming Association (FINA) by the Association’s President Julio César Maglione in Budapest’s Parliament Building on Monday.

The 7th day of the race became the second "border-line" day for the Silk Way Rally-2017, and the border crossed was between Kazakhstan and China.

Sotnikov scored the best time at Stage 5 of SWR-2017 that connected Astana and Semey, and SS was 484 km long.

The biggest sports event in Hungary’s history, the 17th FINA World Aquatics Championships began in Budapest on Friday evening with a spectacular opening ceremony.