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Russia defeated Bulgaria 3-0 (25-17, 25-22, 25-17) at the FIVB Volleyball Nations League on Thursday with Dmitry Volkov scoring 14 points and Victor Poletaev 13 for the winners. This is what the players said: Asparuh Asparuhov (BUL): It's always difficult to play against such a physical team like Russia. It was tight. At one moment we were playing point-by-point, because we were able to receive the ball well and do something in attack. But once they were making good serves and we were not able to receive them properly, we had problems in attack. Igor Kobzar (RUS): We are happy that we won, because if you see the standings and our ranking you can see how important it is for us to win every game. Our position is now totally different to before. The game itself was kind of easy, because the Bulgarian team have many young players. But the most important thing is that we won this game 3-0. Today it was decided on one skill, we dominated in every skill - serve, attack, block, defence, recep
