Teams

Romania	Russia
Tries Penalty tries 2	Tries Ostrushko, Temnov
Cons Vlaicu 2	Cons Gaisin
Pens Vlaicu 2	Pens Gaisin 2
Team 15 FB Gabriel Conache 14 W Stephen Hihetah 13 C Robert Dascalu 12 C Florin Vlaicu 11 W Ionut Dumitru 10 FH Filip Lazar 9 SH Florin Surugiu 1 P Ionel Badiu 2 H Eugen Capatana 3 P Alexandru Tarus 4 L Marian Drenceanu 5 L Marius Sirbe 6 F Mihai Macovei (c) 7 F Dorin Lazar 8 N8 Daniel Carpo     Replacements 16 H Otar Turashvili 17 P Horatiu Pungea 18 L Valentin Poparlan 19 F Viorel Lucaci 20 FH Csaba Gal 21 SH Vali Ivan 22 Andrei Ilie	Team 15 FB Igor Klyuchnikov 14 W Mikhail Babaev 13 C Dimitri Gerasimov 12 C Alexei Makovetskiy 11 W Vladimir Ostrushko 10 FH Ramil Gaisin 9 SH Alexandr Ianyushkin 1 P Grigory Tsnobiladze 2 H Valery Tsnobiladze 3 P Andrei Igretsov 4 L Alexandr Voytov (c) 5 L Artem Fatakhov 6 F Pavel Butenko 7 F Andrei Temnov 8 N8 Viktor Gresev     Replacements 16 H Stanislav Sel'skiy 17 P Alexandr Bezverkhov 18 Denis Antonov 19 H Evgeni Matveev 20 FB Igor Galinovskiy 21 SH Alexei Shcherban 22 Sergey Ianyushkin

Notes

Result Romania won by a margin of 2 points

Nations Cup points Romania 4, Russia 1 (1 losing bonus)

Ground name Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest

Referee C Assmus (Canada)

Romania Test debuts I Badiu, M Drenceanu

Russia Test debuts A Bezverkhov

Other scores

African Championship D1
Botswana	9 - 54	South Africa XV	Gaberone
Estwatini	10 - 61	Niger	Gaberone
Mauritius	67 - 17	Zambia	Gaberone
Nations Cup
Emerging Ireland	51 - 3	Uruguay	Bucharest
Tbilisi Cup
Georgia	16 - 26	Argentina Jaguares	Tbilisi
Emerging Italy	37 - 0	Spain	Tbilisi