Their pressure resulted in a string of corner kicks but no clear opportunities until Yuri Zhirkov's hard volley in the 21st went just outside Isaksson's left post.

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Mourinho's gestures from the sidelines made it clear he wanted Inter to exploit the areas around Chelsea left-back Yuri Zhirkov, but the Russian full-back twice rescued his side with perfect challenges on Eto'o and Pandev as they closed in on keeper Ross Turnbull.

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By 2006, he had been thinking of quitting ballet "after a year or two", he told Russia 24, but the artistic director of the time, Yuri Grigorovich, persuaded him after The Golden Age that ballet was his calling.

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But the head of the Russian space agency, Yuri Koptev, said it was discussing candidates to become the next space tourist with the owner of the Soyuz spacecrafts, Interfax reported.

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But today, the demilitarized town where the first man in space Yuri Gagarin once lived, is open for business, ferrying cosmonauts and billionaires to space while also offering wild spins in a giant centrifuge to visitors who only dream of the great beyond.

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There have been many critical moments in the history of space exploration -- Sputnik in 1957, Yuri Gagarin in 1961, Neil Armstrong in 1969 -- but if you look back over the history of manned happenings outside of the atmosphere, almost all of these moments were driven by government funds.

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Yuri Zarutsky said he had been detained "for a crime" but refused to provide any details.

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But the renaissance lasted all of nine minutes, Anelka making the most of a Fulop flap at Yuri Zhirkov's cross to tap into an empty net.

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