Russia's third straight win means it tops Group B ahead of the Swiss.The winner became the leader of championship preliminary stage and now has to play with Sweden, USA and Latvia. The match started with prompt goal of Vitali Atyushov, russia took the lead after 2:19,. Ilya Kovalchuk and Denis Grebeshkov assisted him. But then Russian team made several gross errors and as a result gave up two goals.
      Russia was behind in the first period, but managed to equalize the score at 9:08 of the second, when Sergey Zinoviev skated quickly and passed to Kovalchuk, who scored a goal.
      Russia regained the lead on another goal at 8:28 of the third period. Alexander Frolov picked up a rebound from Ilya Bryzgalov and flipped the puck over the goalie.
      Alexander Perezhogin scored an empty-net goal with 15 seconds left to complete the scoring.
      
      Source:www.rg.ru