Shinty in the United States 2006 Gary Innes, Captain of Fort William Shinty Club and Man of the Match for the 2005 Camanachd Cup visited to California to play Shinty and to teach at a workshop hosted by the Northern California Camanachd Club open to all US Shinty Clubs. Gary Innes will be returning in June 2007 to teach another workshop open to all clubs and individuals. This workshop will help developing clubs as well as beginning level players. The club played its first twelve a-side fixture in Scotland against Skye Camanachd on 6 September 2007, they were defeated 9-0. The spring of 2008 marked
Shinty in Russia Shinty in Russia Shinty is a very small minority sport in Russia, played primarily in Krasnodar but with some enthusiasts in Moscow. Whilst Scots mercenaries may have played shinty in ancient times, shinty was almost entirely unknown in Russia, and by extension the Soviet Union, other than several Soviet diplomats being invited to a match by Sir Fitzroy Maclean in Strachur in the 1960s. It was not until the advent of the internet and the enthusiasm of a young man called Vitaliy Negoda MacDhùghaill that shinty became a sport played in the country in the 2010s. Krasnodar Camanachd was established