24 Aug 2026
Monday
Process
3 Edition

The Orsha Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The small margins put Orsha out

Out, 0‑1 to Smorgon, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Market

Artem Antonov hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Orsha can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Minsk come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Orsha did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 28 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Market

Only the photograph left for Ivan Berezun

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ivan Berezun will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Orsha the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match

4 matches without a win for Orsha

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Orsha are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Gleb Zheleznikov 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 Orsha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

A bad afternoon for Orsha against Volna Pinsk

0‑1 to Volna Pinsk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Pavel Bordukov

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Orsha Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Vitaliy Myronenko puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Orsha, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Gerardo Cortés runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Abdulaziz Lawal 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 Orsha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Artem Antonov 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.

Squad

Stanislav Bulakhov signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Stanislav Bulakhov and Orsha agree another 3 years.

Squad

This league is too small for Gerardo Cortés

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Orsha will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Market

Still no ink between Orsha and Dmitriy P. Denisenko

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Orsha, another week without a signature from Dmitriy P. Denisenko.

Market

The clock runs on Gleb Zheleznikov's contract

48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Market

A long bet from Orsha on Egor Yuschenko

He is 20, and nobody at Orsha signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief

1 Edition

The Orsha Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Maxim Makarov asks to leave Orsha

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Pavel Bordukov signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Pavel Bordukov and Orsha agree another 2 years.

Squad

Pavel Bordukov 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 Orsha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Lida take the points off Orsha

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Stanislav Bulakhov

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Taysir Adamchik

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

24 months and counting on Pavel Bordukov

Still no offer on the table, and Pavel Bordukov’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Market

Ivan Berezun is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Orsha has been clear about where Ivan Berezun stands, which is more than many ever get.

Squad

Raul Adygezalzade makes his debut at 20

At 20 years old, Raul Adygezalzade became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.

In brief