RUSSIA News, Sep 29, 2011

Russia's Putin: I had no role in oil trading empire Reuters By Gleb Bryanski MOSCOW, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly addressed one of the most serious corruption allegations against him for the first time on Wednesday, saying he did not help businessman Gennady Timchenko ... See all stories on this topic »

A(nother) Day in the Life of Homophobic Russia Care2.com (blog) Russian activists have pledged to sue the refusal to register their groups before the European Court of Human Rights. Russian gay leader and organizer of Moscow Pride, Nikolai Alekseev, pointed out that gay groups have been registered in St. Petersburg ... See all stories on this topic »

Russian-Turkmen trade reaches 2 bln dollars in first half of 2011 Trend News Agency A business delegation from Russia, including entrepreneurs from Moscow, St.Petersburg, Omsk, Saratov, Chelyabinsk and other parts of Russia has brought cooperation proposals to Ashgabad. "Relations between Turkmenistan and Russiamake the weather in ... See all stories on this topic » Trend News Agency

American Ballet Theater to Begin Training Course in Russia New York Times (blog) The company said on Wednesday that it would present a weeklong course on its training techniques in St. Petersburg, Russia, home of the Mariinsky Theater — the former Kirov — and a venerable part of ballet history. Ballet Theater will hold the five ... See all stories on this topic »

Moscow festival scene continues through the fall Russia Beyond The Headlines The 27-year-old computer programmer from St. Petersburg, his wife and toddler son came toMoscow to spend three nights at the Rusichi camp, located on the grounds of the Kolomenskoye estate, which had been turned into a medieval village. From Sept. ... See all stories on this topic »

AECOM oversees Russian road KHL Group US-based technical and management services group AECOM has won a contract for the public-private partnership (PPP) concession for the Moscow to St Petersburg M11 Highway project in Russia. The contract has been awarded by the North-West Concession ... See all stories on this topic » KHL Group

At Home -- and Work -- with Russian UVM News (Chase, a high school chess champion, originally learned Russian with the dream of competing in Moscow speaking the native language. He spent a year abroad studying at St. Petersburg University while playing chess tournaments on the side. ... See all stories on this topic » UVM News

Political Zombies Are Mounting Comeback Bids The Moscow Times Rogozin, 47, Russia's envoy to NATO, topped the Rodina electoral list in 2003. It was a leftist party at the time, but he rebranded it into a nationalist one for the Moscow City Duma vote in 2005, possibly with the Kremlin's blessing. ... See all stories on this topic » The Moscow Times

Stavisky, Local Pols Visit Russia Western Queens Gazette ... was joined by Assemblymembers Alan Maisel, Sylvia Gottlieb, Jeffrey Dinowitz, Amy Paulin andRussian born Alec Brook-Krasny. They visited the cities of Kazan, which is the capital of the Federated Republic of Tatarstan, St. Petersburg and Moscow. ... See all stories on this topic »

KBA to Present Half-Format Rapida 75E in Live Production What They Think This was followed in January by a further press of the same series at Apolinaria in Armavir - again in South Russia. And then in May, the PVG group in St. Petersburg received a five-colour Rapida 162a (sheet format 120 x 162 cm) in a double-coating ... See all stories on this topic »

Online book retailer buckles under FSB pressure RIA Novosti ... head of the Miners' & Metallurgical Workers' Union of Russia, Valentina Kabanova, chair of theMoscow Region Association of Trade Unions, and Sergei Vostretsov, head of the Association of Trade Unions of Russia Sotsprof, nominated in St. Petersburg. See all stories on this topic »

War Means War Russia Profile Yet the story of how works attributed to the art group Voina will be displayed at the 2011 Moscow Biennale is the latest case of the group receiving greater official recognition, despite its members' renegade status in Russia today. ... See all stories on this topic » Russia Profile

United by our past, we will tackle the future together Russia Beyond The Headlines The famous Cameron's Gallery entered Russian poetry (for instance, it is mentioned in Akhmatova's Poem without a Hero), becoming a symbol of the influence that great styles of European cultures had upon Russia. The whole of Saint Petersburg is an ... See all stories on this topic » Russia Beyond The Headlines

Creative Recreation Fall 2011 'Fishing Cesario' Collection stupidDOPE.com The team traveled to Moscow & St. Petersburg, Russia, where they were inspired by the scenery and culture. You'll see in the color and material choices the impact the people there had on the fall product. The Fishing Cesario retails for $95 and is now ... See all stories on this topic » stupidDOPE.com

Expert-Analytics League “Resource Strategy” – a new intellectual platform ... vestnik kavkaza The Moscow State University named after MV Lomonosov opened a constituent session of the Expert-Analytics League “Resource Strategy”. Yevgeny Tipaylov presented a report on Russian-German energy cooperation and called the league a new intellectual, ... See all stories on this topic »

Russia mobile base grows 0.3% in August Telecompaper (subscription) In Moscow, the subscriber base dropped 0.5 percent to 35.489 million, and in St Petersburg, the number grew by 0.7 percent to 13.415 million. The market penetration in the two cities totaled 208.9 percent and 211.6 percent, respectively. See all stories on this topic »

In Russia held a videoconference Minsportturizma dedicated to the ... Russia Week News ... The largest number of participants is planned in St. Petersburg, the Republics of .... At a meeting in Moscow VI Congress of the Party JUST RUSSIA approved list of candidates for the State Duma of the sixth convocation. ... www.russia-week.com/.../in-russia-held-a-videoconference-mi...

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SPORTS, Athletics News, Sep 29, 2011

Vandal soccer heads to California Moscow-Pullman Daily News The Idaho women's soccer team has moved into its first week of Western Athletic Conference games with matches against Fresno State and San Jose State. Idaho soccer coach Pete Showler said he wants to see consistency, both offensively and defensively, ... See all stories on this topic »

Simmons athletics lack support from student community The Simmons Voice Simmons College is known for its academics, but not for its sports or sports community. The student athletes at Simmons definitely take notice of the lacking sports culture at Simmons. "In 2009 when the soccer team won GNACs and proceeded to the first ... See all stories on this topic »

Academy Sports Turf Installs Tiger XQ45 Synthetic Turf for New Athletic Field ... PR Web (press release) Stephen Jewell, sales representative for Academy Sports Turf and estimator for the Vista Ridge High School athletic field project, noted that his company and Tiger Turf provided creative solutions that allowed for combined baseball, soccer and football ... See all stories on this topic » PR Web (press release)

Sports Roundup: Hopkins Girls Stun Eden Prairie Patch.com By Tom Carothers The Hopkins girls soccer team claimed its biggest victory of the season on Tuesday, shutting out the then-Lake Conference leader on the road to highlight the early week areaathletic schedule. Eight saves from goalkeeper Jenny Grahek ... See all stories on this topic »

WOMEN'S COLLEGE SOCCER NOTEBOOK: Broncs full of confidence heading into MAAC play The Trentonian By BOB NUSE The Rider women's soccer team opens Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference play Saturday at Loyola (Md.), and the Broncs have never headed into conference play on a better note. With a 1-1 tie against Holy Cross last Sunday, Rider finished the ... See all stories on this topic »

OC athlete's dream gets kick-start at UCLA OCRegister Gonzalez was a four-sport athlete in high school. But when he wasn't recruited by his dream school, UCLA, for football or soccer, he decided to give up any idea of playing collegiate sports and enroll at the Westwood campus anyway, where many family ... See all stories on this topic »

FOOTBALL: Barlow part of this year's Hightstown High Hall of Fame class The Times of Trenton - NJ.com Barlow, a former three-sport athlete at Hightstown High, went on to play soccer at Penn. Soon to be inducted into the Hightstown Athletic Hall of Fame, Barlow is a family man and Supervisory Producer for NFL Films, where he has been employed for the ... See all stories on this topic » The Times of Trenton - NJ.com

W. SOCCER | Speedy goalie slowing down opponents Yale Daily News Goalkeeper Adele Jackson-Gibson '13 is the fastest player on the women's soccer team. Photo by Yale Athletics . By Maria Guardado The summer after her sophomore year of high school, goalkeeper Adele Jackson-Gibson '13 attended a soccer camp hosted by ... See all stories on this topic »

SOCCER NOTEBOOK: For Fords' Geiger, wins speak louder than words Delaware County Daily Times But soccer, a sport she's played since she was 4 years old, is her primary focus. With a dozen goals, that shows. “Amanda Case, a junior, and (sophomore) Laura Slavich have been unbelievable this season, too,” said Geiger, a center-mid. ... See all stories on this topic »

High School Soccer: SMA's Borrego named All-American San Marcos Daily Record San Marcos — After receiving TAPPS First Team, All-State honors last year as a defender on the Bears soccer team, San Marcos Academy senior Memo Borrego of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, has now received national recognition for his athletic talent. ... See all stories on this topic »

Cambrian varsity athletes return to action NorthernLife.ca Life within the world of Cambrian College Varsity Athletics is, very gradually, settling back to normal. Well, as close to "normal" as we are likely to see this year. Unfortunately, 2011 will always be remembered as the season the Golden Shield soccer ... See all stories on this topic »

Soccer Bruins come out kicking Brampton Guardian ... Athletic Association (OCAA) soccer seasons. Both the men's and women's teams are 2-0 following opening weekend play on the road. The OCAA season is late in starting because the recent labour dispute resulted in the cancelling of sports activities. ... See all stories on this topic »

Sports capsule Napa Valley Register The spring sports season runs from early February through mid May. If you are interested in applying, send a letter of interest, a resume, and list of references to Vintage Athletic Director Cam Neal at 1375 Trower Ave., Napa, CA 94558. ... See all stories on this topic »

College notebook: Two former area soccer standouts draw starting assignments ... Petoskey News-Review Wilmington is 3-4-2 overall, 1-0-0 in the Ohio Athletic Conference. — Harbor Springs grad Mike Vandermus recorded two solo tackles for the Albion College football team in a 31-17 loss to Butler (Ind.) Vandermus is a 5-foot-11, 188-pound sophomore ... See all stories on this topic »

Reuters Sports Schedule at 0600 GMT on Thursday, Sept 29 Yahoo! Eurosport UK (SOCCER-CHAMPIONS/WRAPUP 1, pix, by Sonia Oxley, 800 words) LONDON - Big-spending Paris St Germain's trip to Athletic Bilbao is among a host of second-round matches in the Europa League. (SOCCER-EUROPA/, by Mark Meadows, 500 words) MADRID - Champions ... See all stories on this topic »

State tennis and soccer host sites determined NOLA.com (Baton Rouge, LA) – At the Annual Louisiana High School Athletic Association Executive Committee Fall Meeting held earlier today, host sites were awarded for the State Soccer Championships and the State Tennis Tournament. The 2012 – 2013 LHSAA State ... See all stories on this topic » NOLA.com

Connecticut College Sports Roundup Patch.com scored three minutes and 35 seconds into overtime to give visiting Connecticut College a 2-1 victory over the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth men's soccer team in a non-conference match at the UMass Dartmouth Athletic Complex Tuesday. ... See all stories on this topic »

Individual trainers can offer an extra boost STLtoday.com "They're all successful soccer players, but none of them can kick well," Windau said. And while she's happy with their coaches and teams, she decided this is something that needed to be tackled on their own time -- so she turned to an athletics trainer ... See all stories on this topic »

Baltimore high school decides to drop football after player's death in 1911 Baltimore Sun One of the first of Maryland colleges to cut out American football from its list of athletic sports is Mount St. Joseph's. In its place, soccer football has been substituted. So long as Brother Norbert remains in charge, American football is not likely ... See all stories on this topic »

British Soccer Officials Intrigued by NFL's Rooney Rule New York Times (blog) Earlier this month, representatives of the Football Association (the sport's governing body in England), the Premier League, the Football League, the players union and the managers association listened to a presentation by an American, Cyrus Mehri. ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times (blog)

Messiah to Select 50 Greatest Athletes The Swinging Bride The 2011-2012 school year at Messiah College is marking the 50th anniversary of Messiah Collegeathletics. During the last half-century, Messiah has established itself as a legitimate sportspowerhouse, particularly in men's soccer (eight national ... See all stories on this topic »

KEAN'S DEFENSE THE DIFFERENCE AS #24 NEW JERSEY CITY SUFFERS FIRST LOSS, 1-0 NJCU Athletics ... Jersey City University to just six total shots as previously undefeated NJCU suffered its first loss of the season, a 1-0 setback to the host Cougars in a New Jersey Athletic Conference women'ssoccer game on Wednesday night at Kean Alumni Stadium. ... See all stories on this topic »

UWS soccer teams to host 'Caps for Cancer' Superior Telegram Also at 7 pm, the Yellowjacket men's soccer team will play Bethel University at Public School Stadium in Duluth. Admission is free. To register for any of the events, or for more information, contact the Yellowjacket athletics office at 715-395-4693. ... See all stories on this topic »

Live Video Stream Available for No. 23 Men's Soccer vs. Bethel Taylor University Trojans Athletics UPLAND, Ind.--The Taylor athletic department will continue its video streaming pilot program for thesports of men's and women's soccer beginning today as the No. 23-ranked men's soccer team hosts three-time defending MCC champion Bethel starting at ... See all stories on this topic »

Eagles Top Lakeland The Candor The BenU Women's Soccer team improved to 4-0 in Northern Athletics Conference play with their 3-1 victory over Lakeland College Saturday afternoon at the Lisle-Benedictine Sports Complex. Three different Eagles found the back of the net as freshman ... See all stories on this topic »

New turf fields would be "multi-use" Omaha World-Herald Artificial turf athletic fields at Millard North and Millard West high schools would serve as "multi-use" fields for physical education classes, sports practices and competitions, marching band practices and community use. Varsity football games ... See all stories on this topic »

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