Selektor Rusije Sergey Bazarevich objavio je širi spisak igrača za koje računa na predstojeće kvalifikacione okršaje protiv Bugarske i Češke u septembru Na spisku su:
Evgeny Baburin (Lokomotiv Kuban, 31, 189 cm), Dmitry Kulagin (Lokomotiv Kuban, 26, 195 cm), Mikhail Kulagin (CSKA Moscow, 23, 191 cm), Ivan Ukhov (CSKA Moscow, 22, 193 cm), Vitaly Fridzon (Lokomotiv Kuban, 32, 195 cm), Dmitry Khvostov (Lokomotiv Kuban, 28, 190 cm), Alexey Shved (Khimki, 29, 198 cm), Semyon Antonov (CSKA Moscow, 29, 202 cm), Nikita Balashov (without club, 27, 207 cm), Petr Gubanov (Khimki, 31, 207 cm), Andrey Zubkov (Khimki, 27, 205 cm), Sergey Karasev (Zenit St. Petersburg, 24, 201 cm), Nikita Kurbanov (CSKA, 31, 202 cm), Vladimir Ivlev (Lokomotiv Kuban, 28, 207 cm), Artem Klimenko (UNICS Kazan, 24, 214 cm), Timofey Mozgov (the Orlando Magic, 32, 216 cm).
Rusija je u preliminarnoj fazi kvalifikacija bila u grupi sa našom reprezentacijom, baš kao i sada, a pored Češke, Bugarske, Bosne i Hercegovine i Rusije u grupi su još Finska i Francuska.
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