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Post-Soviet league plan takes step closer

The ambitious plan to create a post-Soviet football league grouping the best teams of the former USSR took a step closer Thursday when its powerful backers announced the creation of an organising committee to realise the plan.

The ambitious plan to create a post-Soviet football league grouping the best teams of the former USSR took a step closer Thursday when its powerful backers announced the creation of an organising committee to realise the plan.

The head of the Russian premier league Sergei Pryadkin told reporters that the top flight division would organise the realisation of the project, which has received backing in the highest levels of the Russian elite.

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