Unidentified assailants gunned down a customer at one of the popular PirO.G.I. cafes in central Moscow in what police said was likely an ordinary argument that turned deadly, The Moscow Times reported on Wednesday, May 2.
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May 2, 2007Lokomotiv Moscow have sacked coach Slavoljub Muslin following a string of poor results, the Russian premier league club quoted by Reuters said on Thursday.
Lokomotiv said they had appointed former CSKA Moscow manager Oleg Dolmatov, who was axed by Russian premier league strugglers Shinnik Yaroslavl last month.
Although they remain in contention for the league title, Lokomotiv have been inconsistent under Muslin for much of the season.
Lokomotiv’s bosses finally lost their patience with the 53-year-old Serbian after a 1-0 home defeat by FK Moscow at the weekend which dropped the railway side to second place, two points behind city rivals CSKA.
Lokomotiv also suffered a humiliating exit from the UEFA Cup in the first round after losing to Belgium’s Zulte Waregem 3-2 on aggregate last month.
After winning the first leg 2-1 in Moscow, Muslin boldly predicted that his side would crush the Belgian part-timers in the away leg, only to see them lose 2-0.
The coach was criticized by the Russian media for being over-confident and under-estimating his opponents.
Muslin became the first foreign manager in Lokomotiv’s history when he was appointed to the post last December after quitting Belgian first division side Lokeren.
The well-traveled Serbian has also coached French clubs Brest, Girondins Bordeaux and Le Mans as well as Serbia’s Red Star Belgrade, Bulgaria’s Levski Sofia and Ukraine’s Metalurg Donetsk.
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