Emiliano Carchia: OFFICIAL: Russia and Belarus withdrawn from FIBA’s European national team and club competitions
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Donatas Urbonas: BREAKING: FIBA withdraws Russian and Belarussian teams from international competitions.

The Russian national team showed again how fully prepared it is ahead of the Eurobasket 2017 qualification games. After Belarus, it easily defeated Georgia 94 – 62. Alexey Shved (15 points, 7 rebounds) along with Vitaly Fridzon (13 points) and Timofey Mozgov (12 points) shined the most from Russia.