Sport Express
sports newspaper
Sport-Express (Russian: Спорт-Экспресс) is a Russian daily sports newspaper founded by Vladimir Kuchmiy. Printed in 31 cities of Russia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and the United States, it is the biggest-selling sports newspaper in Russia, with the daily audience of over 700,000 people.
Sport-Express was founded in 1991. It is a part of the European Sports Media.
Notable journalists
Vsevolod Kukushkin, ice hockey and sports correspondent (22 years)
Elena Vaytsekhovskaya, sports correspondent (26 years)
Aksel Vartanyan, sports historian
Vladimir Kuchmiy, founder and chief editor (18 years)
Igor Rabiner, football reviewer and sports correspondent (1994–2012, since 2014)
Alexey Popov, Formula One correspondent
Rovshan Askerov, columnist
See also
List of non-English newspapers with English language subsections
Sovetsky Sport
References
External links
Official website (archived)
Covering All the Games (archived)
"От Мейджерс до Новотной. Краткая история турниров WTA Tour в России" (in Russian). Sport Express. 1998-10-19. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
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