The Ostrovets Post
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Ostrovets training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitriy Gradoboev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ivan Mokshin in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ostrovets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market12 Oct 2026
Ostrovets promote Ruslan Klimovich from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ruslan Klimovich has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market12 Oct 2026
Ostrovets promote Valery Dragun from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Valery Dragun has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Rodion Medvedev gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad12 Oct 2026
19 new faces, and Ostrovets are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at Ostrovets
Something was said to Timur Minets and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Artem Sokolovskiy walks taller at Ostrovets
His past walked in ahead of him. Players who have been where he has been get a hearing in a dressing room before they have earned one, and he has it for as long as his form does.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Rodion Medvedev question follows Ostrovets around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Rodion Medvedev’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- The dugout Vladislav Drozd knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout The manager comes out for Ruslan Radyukevich