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RUSSIA Ski, Snow, Resorts News, Nov 24, 2011



Mega Russian Sustainable Tourism Project in North Caucasus Mountains Takes ...
MarketWatch (press release)
18, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The company overseeing construction of a massive system ofski, beach and natural health spa resorts covering 50000 sq km in Russia's North Caucasus range, stretching 1200 km from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea and ...
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Malaysians Get Invite To Invest In Russian Tourism Project
Bernama
NCRC is overseeing construction of a massive system of ski, beach and natural health spa resorts covering 50000 sq km in Russia's North Caucasus range, stretching 1200km from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea and forming the country's southern border ...
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Heavy snow wipes out 1st training run at Lake Louise
CBC.ca
If Erik Guay has to sacrifice a ski season to make it to the next Winter Olympics, he says this is the winter to do it. No Olympics or world alpine championship on the schedule for 2012 opened a window for Guay to address chronic and crippling back ...
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CBC.ca
What's Russian for “Homosexual Propaganda”?
New Yorker (blog)
When Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin go bike riding together, when they have intimate public breakfasts, when they are forced to deny that they're married, when they play badminton, when they ski and drink cocoa and fish, often in matching outfits...
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New Yorker (blog)
Leave the job and Jet Ski behind - go on a real adventure
The Virginian-Pilot
They'll go to Colombia, to Ecuador, to St. Petersburg, Russia, to the Middle East and Eastern Europe and Africa. They'll come back to the States for a visit, then it's on to New ZealandAustralia,MalaysiaIndia. "I'm excited to not be on a time ...
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FWT is back
PlanetSKI.eu
The organisers hope there will still be events at Sochi in Russia and in the USA but nothing is confirmed. FWT in ChamonixThe men's skiing line-up will feature big mountain specialist and two-time World Champion Aurelien Ducroz. ...
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PlanetSKI.eu
Mammoth Grand Prix First Step Towards Olympics
Newschoolers
The event will now directly affect the efforts of US Ski Team Members that are vying for the chance to represent their country in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The 2014 Winter Olympics will be the first time that slopestyle skiing has ever ...
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Millions dollars to create Alps in the heart of Siberia
RT
Foto http://www.baikalresorts.com/ The Lake Baikal region wants to turn itself into the Alps of Central Asia with a billion dollar project to create a ski resort. Private equity fund EurAsia Capital Partners of Hong Kong is joining forces with Russia's ...
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RT
WHAT THE BUTLER SAW – MAKE THAT ABRAMOVICH'S COOK, HERR SPONRING
Business Insider
... UK High Court trial of Berezovsky v Abramovich reveals what Abramovich got up to outsideRussia, when he thought he was safe from Kremlin supervision – holidays, airplane rides, airplane rides between seaside villas and ski chalets, lots of them. ...
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China eyes Russia's gem, Lake Baikal
Pravda
Eurasia Capital Partners, a company from Hong Kong, is investing $100 million in the development of the all-season ski resort on Lake Baikal, Pyotr Shura, the general director of Rusresorts said. "Rusresorts, a Russian investor in tourist projects, ...
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Toby Dawson to Coach National Freestyle Team
The Chosun Ilbo
The Korea Ski Association said the contract will run until May 2014, after the Winter Olympics are held that year in Sochi, Russia. It can be renewed until after the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, depending on Dawson's performance. ...
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The Emperor's Slip Is Showing
Canada.com
Actually, he's riding hard - full throttle - on a Jet Ski, wearing a skin-tight wetsuit. He looks tres buff - especially for a Canadian politician. He slews the Jet Ski up to the dock, flashes a 500kilowattHollywood grin and indicates to reporters ...
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Escape the Scottish winter: 10 December holiday ideas
Strathearn Herald
If you cannot face the idea of all that coldness and snow without skiing, look at Crystal Ski to find the best places to enjoy the harshness of Russia's winter whilst speeding down a mountain. People in the southern hemisphere enjoy the beginning of ...
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Busy season ahead for WOP
Squamish Chief
Durno said it's the first time that the event has been in Whistler since 2008 and he expects many athletes to use the event as a primer for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. “The Canadian National Ski Jumping teams, both male and female, ...
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Guay will sacrifice present to ensure Olympic shot
Calgary Herald
"It's a nightmare,'' sighs Erik Guay, the din of 200 school kids and clanging cowbells filling the air as the 10-athlete Canadian alpine ski team for the Winterstart World Cup backtoback weekends at Lake Louise is unveiled at Canada Olympic Park on ...
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Ski Update - Sochi Excited Over Venue Progress, Test Event; FIS Latest
Around the Rings (subscription)
(ATR) Sochi 2014 president and CEO Dmitry Chernyshenko tells Around the Rings the continued construction of the future Olympic venues is an unprecedented and groundbreaking endeavor in Russia's history. “It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have to ...
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Around the Rings (subscription)
Moscow in the snow
eTaiwan News
It would be a stretch to say that Muscovites embrace the winter, but they come as close as human beings are able to outside a ski resort. Bitterly cold outside? No matter. Snow piles atop snow piles? Life marches on. Restaurants are full. ...
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Nov. 18 through 24 Events Calendar
Twin Falls Times-News
42nd annual College of Southern Idaho Ski Swap, 4-10 pm at the CSI Student Recreation Center. Bring skis, boards, ski apparel and other winter gear to sell or trade. Consigned merchandise will be sold by CSI Business Club students; small commission ...
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From South Derbyshire to the South Pole for student
Burton Mail
by CHRISTINA MASSEY A SOUTH Derbyshire woman is braving temperatures of -40C in a bid to win the title of youngest Briton ever to ski to the South Pole. Bryony Balen, of The Common, Melbourne, is currently at a camp in the frozen land, ...
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Burton Mail
On skis and on target
Edmonton Journal
... and are usually made in Germany or Russia. The Biathlon Bears, who use air rifles without harnesses, keep their rifles in the range at all times, as do the biathletes under 17 who shoot the .22. It's challenging to ski with the 3.5-kilogram rifles. ...
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Chinese buy into $1bn Russian Lake Baikal resort
Property Investor Europe (subscription)
Hong Kong-based private equity firm Eurasia Capital Partners has signed an agreement to pay $100m for a 35% stake in Russian investor Rusresorts' $1bn all-season mountain ski resort project on Lake Baikal in Siberia. Rusresorts owner and CEO Petr Shura ...
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Charles de Garmo: Recent Veterans Day brings out memories of Air Force brat ...
TCPalm
We had two indoor pools, ski slope, bowling alley, youth center, movie theater and a golf course on base. This was the 1960s and we all knew that Loring, being a Strategic Air Command base and housing B-52s, we would be the first hit by Russian nukes. ...
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Reading global tea leaves
Ahram Online
The spendthrift Germans cautioned that defaults could cause an economic catastrophe with ski-rocketing Italian bond prices and with economic growth grinding to a halt. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are plotting ...
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Thomas Cook shares rebound 27 per cent after nightmare plunge prompted by debt ...
This is Money
Rival firms are already known to be eyeing up its ski business and luxury division, Elegant Resorts. Thomas Cook was due to post annual results tomorrow but postponed the announcement after a meeting with regional bosses raised the alarm about falling ...
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This is Money
Video: Pro golfer Jamie Moul faces our man Mike
East Anglian Daily Times
Now I'm praying all those balls I hit at the ski-slope driving range the day before were worthwhile – all £55-worth of them. Bang! I've hit my first shot of the day. And joy of joys, it's sailing across the water and heading down the middle of the ...
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'WTO membership will boost Russian tourism' — RT
By RT
Russia's successful WTO bid, Moscow's No-Smoking Day celebrations and reforms going on in the capital's underground have caught expats' attention this week. ... Ski resort Krasnaya Polanya (RT Photo / Irina Vasilevitskaya). (33.5Mb) ...
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Russia's penchant for skiing | Alpine Guru
With a growing desire for snow and alpine holidays from Russians, we thought it' d be good to start translating our website.
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Hello everyone I'm new here. I love to snowboard powder and backcountry. Planning on going somewhere for a late... snowHeads ski club 2.0 is the friendliest ...
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Meanwhile, In russia... - Non-Ski Gabber - Forums
Final post of the night. Gotta get some sleep. PC opens tomorrow. Night, NS. I love you. Bless jah.
www.newschoolers.com/ns/forums/readthread/...id/657830/
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