Russia heaps scorn on team

June 19, 2012
By James Appell






"We hoped for better, but it turned out as it always does." So said former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin in July 1993, though not after something as trivial as defeat in a major football tournament, but following a disastrous monetary reform. Every Russian knows ...

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