The RIA News building is located on Moscow's Garden Ring, a short walk from Gorky Park (of the Scorpions’ “Winds of Change” fame). Its conference hall was almost standing-room only Thursday as Vadim Finkelshtein, head of M-1 Global and Fedor Emelianenko's long-time manager and friend, somberly filled in the assembled Russian media on the latest news from the U.S.