Arsenal also lost Russia forward Andrei Arshavin and France defender William Gallas to calf injuries, while Brazil midfielder Denilson and defender Gael Clichy are also doubtful.
Spain's Rafael Nadal closed the gap on world number one Roger Federer after reaching the final in Miami, where he lost to Russia's Nikolay Davydenko.
Russia lost no time in claiming that Chechnya was the key to the problem.
Putin has worked hard these past four years to recapture positions that Russia lost when the Soviet empire disintegrated.
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On August 18, Russia lost a sophisticated Express-AM4 telecommunications satellite when the launch vehicle put it into the wrong orbit.
Beckham lives in Los Angeles with his family but regularly returns to Britain and was a key member of the England 2018 World Cup bid, which lost out to Russia in the vote earlier in December.
In 1878 the Ottomans lost a war against Russia and consequently some parts of Serbia became independent.
The firm lost market share in Russia - where it is the biggest beer maker - due to tough competition.
The ruling party, United Russia, lost a quarter of its seats in the vote - a big slump in its support.
Here, clever Mr Primakov is bent on recovering Russia's lost glories.
Serbian ninth seed Janko Tipsarevic lost the opening set to Russia's Dmitry Tursunov, but scrapped to claim a 5-7 7-6 (14-12) 6-3 6-4 success and a place in round two against Australia's 20-year-old debutant James Duckworth.
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And inviting foreign investors to look again at Russia is not the lost cause it would have been, say, six months ago.
In Group B, Atlanta Thrashers left wing Ilya Kovalchuk hit four goals for Russia, who have only lost to Slovakia in their four matches.
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There was controversy when Russia's Nikolai Kruykov lost his place in the final of the men's high bar after his start value was downgraded using a new video judging system.
Westward, Russia has regained much of its lost influence in Ukraine, a vital link in gas transit to European markets.
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Russia used to be considered a lost market by distributors due to large-scale infringement, but due to new, innovative tactics the Russian market has become the second largest in terms of revenue for some distributors.
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The politics of representing Russia's rebellious neighbour are not lost on Ani Lorak.
If Napoleon had lost at Austerlitz, he never would have invaded Russia.
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By December 1992 Mr Gaidar had lost his job at the hands of the Duma, Russia's Soviet-era parliament.
Klebnikov was the first American reporter to be murdered in Russia, and with his silencing the world lost one of its foremost experts on the vast and murky crossroads of Russian organized crime, Kremlin politics, Chechen terrorists, billionaire oligarchs, and the spread of Russian mafia conglomerates around the world.
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The company later became mired in a lengthy tax dispute with Russia's federal tax authorities that it ultimately lost.
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Georgia--with Iran, Russia and Turkey as its neighbors--is also lost.
Lost more than half his fortune in the past year, mostly due to disastrous performance of Russia's second biggest steel company, Evraz, in which he has a large stake.
Abramovich has lost nearly half his fortune in the past year, mostly due to the disastrous performance of Russia's second-biggest steel company, Evraz, in which he has a 36% stake.
But Georgia is less interested in regaining access to the Russian market, which it lost in 2006, than in winning trading concessions from America or the EU in return for letting Russia join.
Russia also wants the Georgian leadership to sign a binding agreement renouncing the use of force to recover the lost territories.
In other second-round matches, eighth seed Janko Tipsarevic lost to Viktor Troicki 6-3 6-4 in an all-Serbian match, and Igor Kunitsyn of Russia ousted Robby Ginepri of the United States 6-4 6-3.
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