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...purse for the fight totaled $6.5 million, a richer sum than could have been found in the U.S., says Yuri Fedorov, the fight's Russian promoter. Fedorov also promoted the first title fight in Moscow, last December, for which he paid Maskaev $3 million, double the fighter's standard...
...Ibragimov is sponsored by a local oil company, Nafta Moscow. It is just this sort of arrangement that Fedorov believes will perpetuate the current trend of Slavic champions. "We have a lot of rich companies that can have one boxer, or a team of boxers," says the promoter. "We have asked the government for more recommendations. They need only to tell these companies that this is the thing they need to do. To many companies, government opinion is very important." This new economic model, says Kathy Duva, CEO of Main Events, Holyfield's promoter, is "why we all need...
...such as Ukraine, as well as hostile plots by the U.S. and nato. Moreover, a group of military officers and international-relations experts in Moscow is advancing new reasons for a buffer zone. They argue that the 21st century will be dominated by a "war over resources," says Yury Fedorov, an expert on Russia at Chatham House in London. Its prevailing ethos will be: "If you have a lot of resources, and I need them, I may use my gun to take them." Moscow's heavy-handed interference in Ukraine's 2004 orange revolution hints at how easily discrepant views...