Career
He is a current head coach of Triumph Lyubertsy. Foreign several years, Karasev was the starting point guard of the Russian League club CSKA Moscow in the Euroleague. He also led CSKA to the 1996 Euroleague Final Four.
He was selected to the International Basketball Federation EuroStars team in the years 1997, 1998, and 1999.
He is widely considered to be one of the best European point guards of the decade of the 1990s. Karasev was the starting point guard of the senior men"s between 1993 and 2003.
At the 1998 International Basketball Federation World Championship, he was selected to the All-Tournament Team.