On May 14 Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with volleyball team “Dinamo-Kazan” who had won Russian Championship for the third time.

On Thursday Azerbaijan’s Rabita BAKU qualified for the final four of the Champions League as the cosmopolite armada mentored by Marcello Abbondanza downed once more – for the second time in one week – last year’s bronze medalists Dinamo KAZAN of Russia (3:1; 25-18, 25-14, 19-25, and 25-20).

The vice world champions of Rabita BAKU prolonged their winning streak in Europe’s most elitist competition as they cruised past last year’s bronze medalists Dinamo KAZAN in the first round of action scheduled for the Playoffs 6.

Similarly to what happened last year, a team from Azerbaijan represents the last challenge for Russia’s Dinamo KAZAN along the way to the final four of the CEV Volleyball Champions League.