Russian Rugby Championship
The founding of the league coincided with a period of rapid change for Russian rugby.Just one year later, in 2008, a further six teams from several of the lower division competitions were admitted into the Rugby Premier League.One thing to note was that many of the elevated clubs geographically were semi-professional or even amateur in nature, which lead to a lack of competitive balance.This meant that VVA-Podmoskovye Monino, Krasny Yar, Enisey-STM, Slava Moscow, RC Novokuznetsk and Imperia-Dynamo as well as Fili Moscow and Spartak GM were scheduled to play each other in a straight home-and-away league format.Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules.
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