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RUSSIA Ski, Snow, Resorts News, May 10, 2012


Lindsey Van's push for Olympic women's ski jumping finally flies
Denver Post
By John Meyer Lindsey Van stayed true to her sport and her commitment to get women's ski jumping included as an Olympic sport. The women's event will be part of the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia. (Stanko Gruden, Getty Images) Early in the film ...
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Vladimir Putin sworn in as president for third time
Baltimore Sun
Vladimir Putin was sworn in as Russia's next president despite clashes between helmeted riot police and anti-Putin protestors outside the Kremlin Monday. This is Putin's third stint as president, previously he was serving as Prime Minister.
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Baltimore Sun
Berlusconi guest of honour at Putin's inauguration
Times of Malta
Berlusconi was one of Putin's closest European allies before falling from power last year and has already congratulated the Russian strongman on a private visit at a Russian ski resort after his March 4 election victory. While in power, he came to ...
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The Traveller's Diary: Denis Loktev, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
euronews
The prospect of an eight hour flight in cramped seating is just too much to bear for your average ski bunny. So with that in mind, the people who do go that extra mile to holiday in Russia's icy peninsula are often the most hardcore of extreme sports ...
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euronews
Results of the 2011-2012 winter season: Russia is in a disappointing 16th place.
The Voice of Russia
Let's remind our listeners that the 2010 Games became the worst ever Olympics in country's history where representatives of Russia collected just 3 gold medals in two events: cross-country skiing and biathlon. Shooting skiers defended their Olympic ...
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The Voice of Russia
Dagestan bombs shadow Putin's return to presidency
San Jose Mercury News
Unlike the Chechen wars, the insurgents are not concentrated in any location whereRussian forces can unleash their overwhelming firepower. Russia is seeking investors for a $15 billion project to build ski resorts in Dagestan and other parts of the ...
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Ex-U-M student goes missing while skiing in California
AnnArbor.com
A native of St. Petersburg, Russia, Avdeev is also a specialist in the geology of the Greater Caucus Mountains. His knowledge of mountains is compounded with a lot of raw experience in the outdoors. “He's very experienced in backcountry skiing,” Neimi ...
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Kamchatka, a freerider's paradise
euronews
The volcanoes and geysers of Russia's Far East are the ultimate attraction for extreme sports aficionados. In this issue of 'Russian Life' we discover the land of fire and ice – the Kamchatka peninsula. The immense peninsula between the Okhotsk Sea and ...
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Sochi 2014 ready for spotlight after London
Chicago Tribune
(Reuters) - The Russian Black sea resort of Sochi is ready to step into the spotlight as host of the world's next major sporting event after the London Olympics, 2014 Winter Games chief Dmitry Chernyshenko said on Sunday. Sochi, the first Russian city ...
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A few new names have been added to the Canadian national halfpipe and ...
ESPN
By ESPN Action Sports Canadian Freestyle Ski Association Roz Groenewoud and Mike Riddle, members of the Canadian National Halfpipe team. The Canadian Freestyle Ski Association announced its team rosters for the 2013 season on Thursday.
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ESPN
Olympic skier talks to Pleasantview Elementary students
St. Cloud Times
SAUK RAPIDS — Jessie Diggins is a member of the United States Olympic Nordic skiteam from Afton. She has been skiing practically from the time she could walk. But the 20-year-old Stillwater High School graduate just started officially promoting her ...
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Authorities: Ex-U-M student found dead on California mountain
AnnArbor.com
Authorities are confirming the death of Boris Avdeev, 31, the UM doctoral graduate who went missing during a backcountry ski trip in California. On Thursday at about 3:30 pm, Avdeev was found by search and rescue teams in Cocaine Chute, ...
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Snowboarding added to Paralympics
PlanetSKI.eu
"I would like to thank Sochi 2014, NPC Russia , Russian Government, the World Snowboard Federation and the IPC Athletes' Council for all supporting the inclusion of these two extra medal events. "Snowboarding is a young and exciting sport and one which ...
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Gonzaga officially announces Karnowski signing
KXLY Spokane
Przemek Karnowski (Puh-shemick Car-now-ski), a 7-1, 280-pound Polish center, has signed a letter-of-intent to join the Gonzaga University men's basketball team this fall, Bulldog head coach Mark Few announced Monday. “We are excited to add Przemek to...
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So THAT'S where Macca's money went: Heather Mills pays £1.5m for fairytale two ...
Daily Mail
Ms Mills's attempts to become a medal hopeful at the 2014 Paralympics in Sochi, Russia, have seen a fair share of agony and ecstasy. On 17 December 2010, it was announced that Mills has been offered a trial in the British disabled ski team's ...
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Daily Mail
No summer vacation for Olympic skier
Conway Daily Sun
CONWAY — Coming off her best season yet on the US Ski Team, Leanne Smith believes even better results are just on the horizon. Smith, a 2010 Olympian and the daughter of Paula and Joe Smith, of North Conway, finished fifth in the final Super G World ...
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Kasilof Olympic biathlete hosts clinics for youth
Kenai Peninsula Online
“I like skiing and it's nice to shoot guns,” she said. By Brian Smith Jay Hakkinen has endured a lot of attacks during his 18-year career as a biathlete and Olympian. The 32-year-old homegrown kid from Kasilof has traveled the world with skis under his ...
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Averell Fisk comes home to Sun Valley
Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
He spent time here during summers as a boy, packing a fly rod and picking out a horse from the Sun Valley stables before riding out from the Harriman Cottage with Sepp Froehlich, one of the early directors of the Sun Valley SkiSchool.
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Sotheby's And Christie's The Goldman Sachs's Of The Art World
Forbes
There are dozens of Russian oligarchs, Chinese industrial honchos, gaming casino headmen like Steve Wynn – probably 100 or so collectors stand ready to bid for Warhols, Picassos, Bacons, Rothkos and Clyfford Stills work. Even major museums like the ...
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Fugitive Russian prosecutor to be extradited
The Voice of Russia
... Alexander Ignatenko, who is wanted in Russia on charges of extending protection to an illegal gambling racket. Fifty-two-year-old Mr Ignatenko was detained in January at a ski resort in southern Poland. Fugitive Russianprosecutor to be extradited.
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The Voice of Russia
The Public Chamber RF to discuss the interaction among government, business ...
Republican Information Agency
... 2012 in the Public Chamber of Russia. The "round Table" on "Ski resort cluster development in the Northern Caucasus and the local communities: Partnership for Sustainable Development" is organized by the Public Chamber Commission on Economic ...
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Britain back on flood alert as a month's worth of rain to fall in 24 hours
Telegraph.co.uk
Mirnvy, eastern Russia, hit a sunny 17C but the soggy Midlands saw 9C, 7C colder than normal in May. The mercury plunged to -5.9C on Monday at Kinbrace, Highland, Scotland, close to the UK's lowest ever May temperature, the -9.4C recorded in 1941.
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Telegraph.co.uk
Over two billion rubles to be allocated for the launch of the North Caucasian ...
Republican Information Agency
Arkhyz is the launch pad of the North Caucasus tourism cluster, created in the south ofRussia under the control of the OJSC "Resorts of the Northern Caucasus." By 2020 in the region there will be built seven new world-class ski resorts: Lagonaki ...
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REVITALIZING JAPAN -- Creative use of land / Desperate landowners turning to ...
The Daily Yomiuri
The company, which focuses on business with China, started a full-scale land brokerage business for foreigners two years ago after company officials noticed that wealthy foreigners visiting Hokkaido to ski snapped up land before returning home--as if ...
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The Daily Yomiuri
China rises over the Pacific: Kent
Toronto Sun
The new RAN ships will also be able to carry F-35B Lightnings into harm's way via a skijump flight deck. At the other end of the Pacific carrier league is Thailand's 12000-ton HTMS Chakri Naruebet. It's small but capable of carrying the country's ...
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Olympic gymnast Olga Korbut to light torch
KTVQ Billings News
She traveled the world in the 1970s as the Cold War between Russia and the United States was at its peak. Sport historians have noted that Korbut's impact on politicians and diplomats of the day in both countries played an unexpected role in easing ...
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Attracting veterans part of US Paralympics revitalization plan
Colorado Springs Gazette
Only one, biathlete Andy Soule, reached the podium as the US finished sixth in the gold-medal race and fifth in the total-medal count, trumped by Germany and Russia. Roughly 8 percent of Americans in 2008 in Beijing were veterans when the US took third ...
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India's Naval LCA Flies but Needs More Power
Aviation International News
To facilitate proving the aircraft for carrier operations, a shore-based test facility is being set up at Naval Air Station Goa replicating an aircraft carrier with a ski jump for launch and arresting gear for deck recovery. The takeoff area is ready, ...
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Aviation International News
SAFILO GROUP S.P.A. : The Board of Directors of Safilo Group S.p.A. approves ...
4-traders
Sales in Europe were also impacted by the strong decline recorded in the quarter by the sport business of ski goggles and helmets, due to the particularly adverse weather conditions. On the other hand, sales grew in France and Germany, ...
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Russian Ski Season Ends In Style, Star Wars Costumes
Siberian skiers near Krasnoyarsk, Russia ended their season in style on April 22 by donning costumes for a last downhill run into a giant puddle. This tradition ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../russian-ski-season-ends-in-style-st...
A bizarre skiing tradition in Russia with costumes : theCHIVE
skiing into pool masked costumes 2 A little bizarre skiing tradition in Russia, where else. 3. skiing into pool masked costumes 3 A little bizarre skiing tradition in ...
thechive.com/.../a-little-bizarre-skiing-tradition-in-russia-wher...
I Was Forced to Ski Alpine Meadows This Weekend...
Thus, the Squaw crew had no choice but to ski Alpine. You could tell who was from .....2012 at 10:36 pm. In Soviet Russia, ski resorts bitch about whiny kooks ...
unofficialnetworks.com/forced-ski-alpine-meadows-weekend-...
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