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Natalia Pogonina and Artyom Timofeev became Champions of Russia between girls and youths under 20.

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Russian Juniors(U20) Championships took place 1-13 March in Nojabrsk.
Final leaders standing:
Youths:
1 Artyom Timofeev, 2619 (Kazan) - 8.5
2 Evgeny Alekseev, 2605 (St.-Petersburg) - 8.0
3 Alexander Riazantsev, 2596 (Moscow) - 6.5
Girls:
1 Natalia Pogonina, 2362 (Saratov) - 8.5
2 Marina Guseva, 2261(Frjazino) - 8.0
3-4 Irina Vasilevich, 2292 (Moscow), Valentina Gunina, 2342 (Murmansk) - 8.0