“That’s why I want to invite you to my country in Russia in Dagestan. You are a very big star there, because all the kids are watching MMA. You can come with your family and bring everybod ...

Dr Ibragim Yevtemirov still coughs every so often as he talks. A paediatric trauma surgeon in Dagestan, in the Caucasus region of southern Russia, his ward had been full of Covid-19 cases for a ...

Back in 2024, Islam Makhachev reportedly participated in the filming of a documentary, training in an MMA cage set with the backdrop of the mountains of Dagestan. Makhachev has long been a friend ...