With 11 games left in the Russian Premier League, Anzhi sits in second place.
The match was played at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium due to security concerns in Anzhi's home territory of Dagestan.
English Premier League side Newcastle drew 0-0 away at Anzhi Makhachkala in Russia.
Whether Anzhi offers a better springboard to jump to the Premier League or La Liga remains to be seen.
Newcastle will now face Guus Hiddink's Anzhi Makhachkala after the Russians completed a 4-2 aggregate victory over Hannover , of Germany.
Anzhi already boasts the world's highest-paid player in the world after taxes (Samuel Eto'o) and the best-paid coach in the game (Guus Hiddink).
For starters, because of political instability in Dagestan, Anzhi's players actually live and train in Moscow and only fly down on weekends for games.
The Cameroon forward, who now plays for Anzhi Makhachkala, tried to walk off only to be persuaded to remain by then manager Frank Rijkaard.
But the league places a limit on foreign players, so it was no sure thing that Anzhi would still have a slot for Willian had he waited.
Inter may have won the Champions League in 2010, but offloaded star striker Samuel Eto'o to Russian big spenders Anzhi Makhachkala in an attempt to cut their wage bill.
Lookout said it recently found a text-generating strain of malware in a copied version of the "Angry Birds Space" app on Anzhi, an app store in China for Android devices.
Newcastle's returning French winger Hatem Ben Arfa had the best chance of the match but saw his effort saved while Anzhi's Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o looked dangerous for the home side.
Kerimov is building a 45, 000-seat stadium to replace Anzhi's 15, 200-seat roofless bowl, but it is hard to see the new facility as an instant money-spinner: Makhachkala's population is less than 600, 000, and Dagestan is one of the poorest regions of Russia.
With reports surfacing of Torres having turned down the chance to join big-spending Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala, this seemed the chance for the striker, who celebrates his 29th birthday next week, to banish his woes and restore that absent friend of his: confidence.
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