Foreign hockey players getting Russian citizenship

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   9 Nov

   Hungarian hockey player, 19, gets a Russian passport after 16 VHL games

   A 19-year-old Hungarian, Itay Golan, has been given Russian citizenship after the Nizhny Novgorod region asked for it to be granted as an exception.