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Oct 13, 2011

RUSSIA Ski, Snow, Resorts News, Oct 13, 2011


Pavel Karelin, Russia's top ski jumper, dies in car accident in Nizhny Novgorod
Washington Post
By AP, MOSCOW — Pavel Karelin, Russia's top hope for a ski jumping medal at the 2014 SochiOlympics, has died in a car accident. Russian media reported Karelin's death, saying the accident occurred early Sunday in his hometown of Nizhny Novgorod, ...
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Connecticut Teen Strives To Ski In 2014 Paralympics
Hartford Courant
Fifteen-year-old Andrew Haraghey's hard work may make his dream to ski with the United States Adaptive Ski Team in the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Russia a reality. Andrew, a sophomore at Enrico Fermi High School in Enfield, has spastic diplegia, ...
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Hartford Courant
IPC Releases 2011-12 Nordic Skiing World Cup Schedule
International Paralymic Committee
Russia, Ukraine and Germany will all head into the World Cup with targets on their backs after displaying stunning performances at the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Games. Russia picked up 14 medals in Cross-Country and another 16 in Biathlon – including ...
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Scientists 95 Percent Certain They've Found Elusive Siberian Yeti
Huffington Post
In fact, opening day of the ski season there is known as Day of the Yeti -- an attempt to sell many Yeti-related souvenirs and bring in more skiers to the region. While scientific researchers continue hunting for signs of a Yeti lair in Kemerovo, ...
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Sugarloaf upbeat despite challenges
The Original Irregular
(BJ Bangs photos) CARRABASSETT VALLEY — The construction of the new Skyline ski lift is 95 percent complete and the end is in sight, with the load test set for around Nov. 1, two weeks ahead of schedule, according to Sugarloaf General Manager John ...
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Komsomolsk-na-Amure: A Distant Soviet Pacific Outpost
Russia & India Report
Winter is also a great time to try one's hands at mountain skiing. A two-hour drive away from the city, Lake Amut is one of the best ski resorts in the Russian Far East. By mid-December, there is enough snow to ski or sled or snowboard on the hills ...
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Russia & India Report
Reclusive Georgian tycoon takes political plunge
Kyiv Post
But since returning to Georgia seven years ago, Ivanishvili's generous funding of Tbilisi State University, theatres, churches, ski resorts and clinics has spread his fame. His investments in his native village of Chorvila, where he lives in a ...
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Andorra 0 - 2 Rep of Ireland
Extratime.ie
When Jack Charlton's team infamously were held to a scoreless draw against Liechtenstein in 1995, it was satirically noted in the tabloids that “Ireland slipped on the ski slope.” Against Andorra, the opposition was different although the surroundings ...
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Metal detecting to be Historical Society topic
Lewiston Sun Journal
Pictured at the September meeting is Nancy Conant, archivist, showing Scott Andrews a pair of Withington skis that had been donated to the collection. Andrews, curator at the Ski Museum of Maine in Wilton, made a presentation on skiing and the ...
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Lewiston Sun Journal
Sochi preparations reviewed
BSR Russia
Plus the railway link between the ice cluster and ski areas of Krasnaya Polyana is being built above the river on a viaduct. There are hotel complexes being constructed and indeed already built along the route. At the end there is a very impressive ...
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Fan arrested for throwing hot dog at Woods
STLtoday.com
(AP) Russia's top ski jumper killed in car crash • Pavel Karelin, Russia's top hope for a ski jumping medal at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, died in a car accident about 250 miles east of Moscow. He was 23rd in the final World Cup standings last season. ...
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Historama, October 7
RT
Tonight's Historama recalls a decisive step taken by the Communist party and the workers' settlement that turned into the greatest ski resort outside Moscow. On this day in 1977, the Soviet Union proclaimed its new Constitution, which went down in the ...
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Sealing the 'Eurasian Union' with a silicon Cote d'Azur
Hurriyet Daily News
Beyond the high-tech plans, the end-game also includes a network of new ski resorts, facilities for cinema production and other resources to create an innovation-based economy to bring prosperity and development to what is now among Russia's poorest...
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Hurriyet Daily News
Taking flight
Wire
The first frosts are finally arriving in New England, and with cold nights comes ski and snowboard video premiere season. It starts off with a screening of “The Art of Flight” in Portsmouth on Wednesday, Oct. 19, followed by a number of others through ...
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Grozny City towers over Chechen grief
Scotland on Sunday
In place of the shattered and empty carcase war left behind, a sort of fantasy Grozny is almost complete, including a fairground and ice-skating rink and plans for a water park, racetrack, cultural centre and ski resort. "They (the Kremlin] finally ...
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Traps men avoid slip-up on the slopes
Irish Independent
There is little to do here except shop and ski. Social unrest is rare; no unions are allowed to form and there is no left-of-centre party. The ASTI would be an anachronistic acronym around these parts. And yet outside, a ring of steel belies this ...
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Sports briefs
Winston-Salem Journal
Pavel Karelin, Russia's top hope for a ski-jumping medal at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, died early Sunday in a car accident in his hometown of Nizhny Novgorod. He was 21. Carey Price stopped 30 shots and the Montreal Canadiens put a damper on a massive ...
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10 Things You Don't Know About The Secret Circle's Chris Zylka
Wetpaint
He did his own jet skiing during Shark Night 3D! We love a man who does his own stunts, especially the really down and dirty stuff like jet skiing.... Chris says, “It was a really, really tough job…to ride a jet ski, all day…that's sarcasm.” 5. ...
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Rezidor Hotel Group AB : and Esta Holding announce the Park Inn by Radisson ...
4-traders (press release)
The group's current portfolio in Ukraine features the Radisson Blu Hotel, Kiev; the Radisson Hotel, Alushta on the Black Sea coast; and a third hotel under development: the Radisson Blu Resort, Bukovel in the country's most popular ski area. ...
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The Russians are coming
BBC Sport
Sochi is reinventing itself as a ski resort par excellence. But that is not all - the stadium used for the Olympic opening ceremony in 2014 becomes a host venue for football in 2018 and the Winter Olympic Park in Sochi is having a Formula 1 Grand Prix...
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BBC Sport
Russia's top ski jumper killed in car crash | The Associated Press ...
By The Associated Press
Pavel Karelin, Russia's top hope for a ski jumping medal at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, has died in a car accident. Russian media reported Karelin's death, saying the accident occurred early Sunday in his hometown of Nizhny Novgorod, about ...
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Russian Ski Team Leader Killed in Road Accident - Kanal PIK TV
Pavel Karelin, a Russian ski jumper and the Russian national ski team leader, was killed in a car accident October 9 in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia, ...
pik.tv/.../20979-russian-ski-team-leader-killed-in-road-acciden...
DailyHouse.com » Russian Ski Jumper Pavel Karelin Passes Away ...
FIS Ski Jumping World Cup - Garmisch-Partenkirchen Day 2. (Photo by Stanko Gruden/Agence Zoom/Getty Images). Sad news out of Russia. 21-year-old ski ...
dailyhouse.com/.../russian-ski-jumper-pavel-karelin-passes-aw...
Russia's leading ski jumper dies aged 21 | RUSSIA | The Moscow ...
Russia's leading ski jumper dies aged 21. Source at 10/10/2011. Pavel Karelin, the 21-year-old leader of the Russian national ski jumping team, died in a car ...
www.themoscownews.com/russia/20111010/189107240.html
Russia's top ski jumper killed in car crash - Sports- NBC Sports
MOSCOW (AP) -Russian news reports say Pavel Karelin, the country's top ski jumper, has died in a car accident.
nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/44834137/ns/sports/
Russia's leading ski jumper dies aged 21 | Sports | RIA Novosti
A deputy head of Russia's Federation of Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined, Vladimir Slavsky, said Pavel "either fell asleep or lost control of the vehicle" and ...
en.rian.ru/sports/20111009/167512645.html
Russia's top ski jumper killed in car crash - More sports news
Pavel Karelin, Russia's top hope for a ski jumping medal at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, has died in a car accident. Russian media reported...
www.mail.com/.../750842-russias-top-ski-jumper-killed-car-cr...

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RUSSIA News, Oct 13, 2011


Hitting Out At Critics
Reuters India
The Tottenham Hotspur striker declined to elaborate but it was widely understood he was referring to the players from Advocaat's former club Zenit St Petersburg, who he led to the Russian title in 2007 and the UEFA Cup the following year. With Russia's ...
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Reuters India
Viking River Cruises upgrades Russian ships and itineraries
USA Today
In addition, the line is enhancing its basic 13-day "Waterways of the Czars" itinerary, which travels from Moscow to St. Petersburg, or reverse. (Trips begin at $2596 per person.) On select departures, cruises will include performances by musicians ...
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USA Today
Moscow picked as most attractive city for European businesses
RT
According to the survey, a whopping 57 large international companies are planning to open Russianbranches in the next five years. This is 20 percent more than in 2010, when Russia also won the title. “In Europe, the fastest-growing economy is Russia, ...
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Public-Private Partnerships Get Tactical
The Moscow Times
In a country where the massive upgrade of St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport is the flagship PPP, one of the partnerships' more unlikely current champions is the Moscowregion's Culture Ministry. The restoration of the Moscow region's 103 tsarist estates ...
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The Moscow Times
Putin return kills democratisation hopes-Khodorkovsky
TrustLaw
Navy sailors walk in front a newly posted election billboard for the All-Russian People's Front, headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, in St. Petersburg, September 8, 2011. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk By Thomas Grove MOSCOW, Oct 12 (Reuters) ...
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Travel All Russia Wins World Travel Award as Russia's Leading Inbound Travel ...
Einnews Portugal
This year was the first when Russia's Leading Inbound Travel Agency category was introduced to the World Travel Awards. Travel All Russia is based in Washington DC and St. Petersburg Russia. It started operations 15 years ago by helping Western ...
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Acquisition-hungry Rostelecom considers snacking on Qwerty
TeleGeography
NTC is said to be Russia's largest cable TV operator, and its cable network passes at least 5.1 million households in Moscow, Moscow Region, St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk. Last month Rostelecom was rumoured to be preparing a bid for ...
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CLASSICAL PREVIEW: "Ying Quartet Plays Anton Arensky"
Rochester City Newspaper
Anton Stepanovich Arensky (1861-1906) lived at a time of great Russian composers. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), just 20 years his senior, was having his works performed in all the great cities of Russia from Moscow to Odessa, in a musical scene...
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Rochester City Newspaper
NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 11 October 2011
Space Ref (press release)
At ~4:35am EDT, Sergey Volkov supported three Russian PAO TV events, downlinking greetings to (1) the Arsenal Development Lab in St. Petersburg, (2) the Participants of the XI Youth Tsiolkovsky Readings, and (3) the participants of the "I am an Author" ...
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Space Ref (press release)
MegaFon selects Proxim to install network equipments
Telecompaper (subscription)
Russian mobile operator MegaFon has selected US broadband wireless systems provider Proxim Wireless in an equipment bid. The system will be installed in a number of MegaFon's operating regions, including the Moscow and Saint Petersburg regions of ...
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Bank Moskvy AKB OAO (P) : 11.10.11 The Bank of Moscow and NPF VTB Pension Fund ...
4-traders (press release)
Advice can already be obtained at a number of the Bank's branches in Moscow and St. Petersburgon ways to create personal pension capital and transfer the cumulative part of one's future pension to NPF VTB Pension Fund. In the future, such services ...
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Danish property group BPT adds Evli arm for Baltic business
Baltic Business News
As a consequence of the transaction, Evli Property Investment including its offices in Helsinki and StPetersburg (staff counts 7 and 5, respectively) becomes a daughter company of BPT, creating a property and asset management team of more than 30 ...
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Mikhail Vrubel in Kyiv
The Day Weekly Digest
I took the trouble of finding in Petersburg a talented Academy of Arts student who could execute this commission in Kyiv, staying within the limits of the available scanty funds… I went to the Academy to see my old friend Chistiakov – and the ball ...
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The Day Weekly Digest
Russia - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a meeting on equipping the Chita ...
ISRIA (registration)
Drawing on that first-hand experience, I can confirm that the network is, indeed, operational and that the quality of telecommunications here is even better than on some of Russia's western highways, such as the one linking Moscow and St Petersburg. ...
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Moscow picked as most attractive city ... - Russian News From Russia
Tags: consulting, cushman wakefield, desirable city, firm, market openness, moscow and stpetersburg, oil and gas prices, percent, potential, Russian News, ...
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National News - The St. Petersburg Times
The St. Petersburg Times. MOSCOW — Budget airline Avianova, which has been embroiled in a bitter shareholder dispute between its U.S. and Russian ...
www.sptimes.ru/index_bp.php?action_id=146&i...12
St. Petersburg's “Unfrozen” Music
NEWS ⁄ Main news ⁄. St. Petersburg's “Unfrozen” Music Oct 7, 2011. A premiere of a film titled “Musical Odyssey in St. Petersburg”, a joint creation of an international team of filmmakers, will take place in Moscow on October 7. ... The film's two stars – US “golden soprano” Renee Fleming and Russian baritone Dmitry ...
www.russkiymir.ru/russkiymir/en/news/.../news4541.html
Travel All Russia Wins World Travel Award as Russia's ... - EIN News
Russia's Leading Business Hotel (won by Swissotel Krasnye Holmy Moscow) Russia's Leading Conference Hotel (won by Hotel Corinthia Hotel St. Petersburg) ...
www.einnews.com/.../565048-travel-all-russia-wins-world-trav...
Russia claims China spy arrest - News.chaobuoisang.net
Russian police block Moscow"s Manezhnaya Square., Photo: AFP ... after police in SaintPetersburg arrested two Russian rocket scientists on suspicion of trying ...
news.chaobuoisang.net/russia-claims-china-spy-arrest-182319...
New Deal Encourages Turkish, Russian SMEs to Join Powers ...
MOSCOW (Cihan/TZ) - Turkish and Russian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are ...News & Politics of the Middle East ... MOSCOW, Aug 15, 2011 (AFP ) -Russian security serves have foiled a plot by a group of ... train running between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, the Kommersant business daily said Monday. ...
scrollpost.com/blog/2011/.../new-deal-encourages-turkish-russ...

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