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Below follow the main events in the Russian sports world in the last 24 hours at 3.p.m. GMT April 17

* At the 2005/2006 men's under-18 world ice hockey championships in Sweden (through April 22):

- Russia took second place in preliminary Group A, defeating the Czech Republic 2:0 in its last game of the tournament's group stage. Russia will face Canada in the quarterfinal tie on April 19

Group A results and final standings:

USA - Belarus - 12:1

Czech Republic - Russia - 0:2

1 U.S. - 8 points

2 Russia - 6

3 Czech Republic - 4

4 Germany - 2

5 Belarus - 0

(U.S. advances automatically to the semifinals)

Group B results and final standings:

Sweden - Slovakia - 5-2

Canada - Finland 0-0

1 Finland - 7

2 Sweden - 6

3 Canada - 5

4 Slovakia - 2

5 Norway - 0

(Finland advances automatically to the semifinals)

* At the ATP Masters Series tennis tournament in Monte Carlo, Monaco:

- Nikolai Davydenko, seeded 5 for the tournament, failed to advance to the second round of the singles, losing to Robin Soderling of Sweden, 3:6, 6:2, 4:6

- Marat Safin lost to Paul-Henri Mathieu of France in the first round of the singles, 0:6, 5:7

- Mikhail Yuzhny lost to Guillermo Coria (6) of Argentina, 1:6, 3:6, in the first round

- Dmitry Tursunov lost to Juan-Carlos Ferrero (11), 1:6, 2:6, in the first round

- Yevgeny Korolyov lost to Radek Stepanek (10) of the Czech Republic, 2:6, 6:7, in the first round

- Teimuraz Gabashvili lost to Gilles Simon of France, 4:6, 2:6, in the first round

* Dinamo Moscow (No. 1 in the regular season) beat Fakel Novy-Urengoi (4), 3:0, in the first leg of the best-of-five semifinal series of the Russian men's volleyball championships. Lokomotiv-Belogorye Belgorod (2) beat Iskra Odintsovo (3) in the another semifinal first leg, 3:2

First-leg semifinals results (host teams listed first):

Dinamo Moscow - Fakel Novy-Urengoi - 3:0 (25:17, 27:25, 25:22). Dinamo leads in the series, 1-0

Lokomotiv-Belogorye Belgorod - Iskra Odintsovo - 3:2 (25:20, 23:25, 25:19, 23:25, 15:10). Lokomotiv leads in the series, 1-0

The remaining semifinal legs are set for April 18, 22 (April 23 and 27 if necessary).

* Dinamo Moscow lost to FC Rostov, 0:1, in a Russian Soccer Premier League home match

Week 5 full results (host teams listed first):

Zenit St. Petersburg - Luch-Energia Vladivostok - 3:1

Lokomotiv Moscow - CSKA Moscow - 3:2

Tom Tomsk - Saturn Ramenskoye - 0:0

Rubin Kazan - Spartak Moscow - 2:0

FC Moscow - Spartak Nalchik - 1:1

Torpedo Moscow - Krylya Sovietov Samara - 1:1

Shinnik Yaroslavl - Amkar Perm - 0:0

Dinamo Moscow - FC Rostov - 0:1

Team standings after Week 5:

1 CSKA Moscow - 10 points/goal difference 11-5

2 Rubin Kazan - 10/6-4

3 Tom Tomsk - 10 /4-3

4 FC Moscow - 10/5-6

5 Spartak Nalchik - 8/9-7

6 Krylya Sovietov Samara - 8/5-4

7 FC Rostov - 7/7-3 (after 4 games)

8 Zenit St. Petersburg - 7/9-6 (after 4 games)

9 Saturn Ramenskoye - 7/5-2

10 Spartak Moscow - 6/6-7

11 Amkar Perm - 5/4-6

12 Lokomotiv Moscow - 4/7-9

13 Torpedo Moscow - 4/3-4

14 Dinamo Moscow - 2/4-7

15 Luch-Energia Vladivostok - 2/4-8

16 Shinnik Yaroslavl - 2/2-10

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