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TRENTO Nike Air VaporMax Black UK , Italy, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Russia snatched eight more medals on Saturday to raise its total to 19 and top the 26th Winter Universiade standings.

Russian cross country athletes were almost unbeatable, winning five of six medals.

In men's final Maxim Kovalev finished first with the time of 3:25.71 ahead of his compatriot Pavel Sliutanov (+0.64), while the Finn Heikki Korpela took the bronze (+1.72).

Podium was all-Russian in the women's sprint final (TC) when Oxana Usatova defeated teammates Olga Tsareva (+0.01) and Olga Repnitsyna (+2.37).

""It was wonderful to see an all-Russian podium. We hoped to realize such a result and we grabbed all the medals though it was a difficult accomplishment,"" Usatova said after the competition held in the context of Italy's rose-tinted Dolomites.

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Also on Saturday, the country won the first match of men's ice hockey, nimbly defeating the Czech Republic 7-1.

With 19 medals including six golds, Russia topped the rankings, followed in the distance by Poland (7), and the Czech Republic and France (both 5).

Italy, the host to the Dec. 11-21 event Nike Air VaporMax UK , has totaled five medals including one gold.

Mirko Giacomo Nenzi was second in men's 500m speed skating on Saturday.

""I knew it was difficult to get a medal because there were several strong guys from Japan as well as from China,"" he said.

""Sometimes it is really difficult, though very gratifying, for us to be students and athletes at the same time. I study psychology and I hope to become a sport psychologist to help athletes give their best,"" Nenzi said.

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With 57 days remaining to the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games, the Winter Universiade Trentino 2013 acts as a testing ground for some athletes in the build up to their career. It features some 2,700 student-athletes from 52 countries and regions representing a number of about 800 universities in the world.

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HELSINKI, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Dressed in traditional clothes, a group of young leaders from the EU and BRICS countries are gathering in downtown Helsinki to exchange ideas on a newly launched platform aiming at building a dialogue channel between the EU and BRICS countries.

The meeting is part of a broader series of seminars called EU-BRICS sessions, which have been organized annually for the past six years. BRICS, namely Brazil Nike Air Max 98 UK , Russia, India, China and South Africa, represent the emerging economies.

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The LEAP2020 made an early analysis that there was need for the developed world to recognize the new trend, and then it started the dialogue project in 2010, bringing together think tank researchers from Europe and Russia, and later extended to include other BRICS countries.

In 2014, the dialogue was disrupted by the Ukraine crisis, but enthusiastic young people from relative countries managed to set up an internet meeting expressing their eagerness to find solutions to end the crisis and the problem of overlapped malfunctioning unions.

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Yan Shaohua, a Chinese delegate who is studying EU International Relations and Diplomacy at the College of Europe, said that there have been bilateral dialogue structures between the EU and BRICS countries Nike Air Max 97 Off White UK , but the BRICS as a bloc has not yet established a dialogue mechanism with the EU.

"A dialogue between the EU and BRICS is both necessary and desirable, as the two represent the largest group of developed countries and emerging countries respectively, which are of great significance to the reforming of the global governance system," he said.

His words were echoed by Alexander Zhebit, Professor of International Studies at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, who pointed out the challenges for setting up such a dialogue between the EU and BRICS.

"BRICS is now forming a special platform for its financial and monitoring changes and it much depends on how this institutionalization is going to proceed," he said.

However Nike Air Max 97 Gold UK , Marie seemed more optimistic about the effects on real politics.

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Realizing the fact of the weakness of some decision makers, the youth choose to use technical tools to back the government and provide strength to produce change, she said.

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Russia's wrestling team may not compete at the Rio Olympic Games after recording ""tens of"" positive doping results, the head of the Russian Wrestling Federation (WFR) said Tuesday.

WFR President Mikhail Mamiashvili said an internal investigation had -uncovered multiple positive doping tests by Russian wrestlers.

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