The head of the Russian internal security agency has dismissed charges of graft and corruption made by Aleksey Navalny, calling the activist a “cloned US puppet” and challenging him to a hand-to-hand fight. “You have allowed insulting and slandering theorizing about me and it is not a habit among officers to simply forgive such things. […]
Russian figure skater Alexandra Trusova has continued her stunning ascent by setting a new junior world record in the short program at the 2018 ISU Junior Grand Prix in Lithuania. Trusova, 14, was awarded a score of 74.74 points in the short program – breaking the previous record of 73.18 points set by compatriot Anna […]
Russian junior figure skater Alexandra Trusova has impressed with her free program at a test training event, successfully landing three quads in her routine including a quad Lutz usually performed by men. The 2018 world junior champion Trusova flawlessly nailed a quadruple Lutz becoming the first female skater to perform this extremely difficult jumping element. […]
CBS Chairman and CEO Les Moonves has been accused by at least six women of sexual harassment, in a culture allegedly shared by some top managers at the network, an exposé by The New Yorker has revealed. Four of the six women told New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow that Moonves had tried to forcibly touch or kiss […]
Authorities in Kazakhstan have announced that one of the suspects in the murder of Denis Ten, an Olympic figure skating bronze medalist, has admitted his guilt, as police continue the hunt for the second perpetrator. The detained suspect was identified as Nuraly Kiyasov, a native of the country’s south, bordering Kyrgyzstan, Almaty’s city prosecutor has […]
Former US ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul was touched that the Senate voted to protect him from being hauled off to a Russian dungeon – or at least that’s what the establishment crowd made it look like. McFaul was the US envoy to Russia from February 2012 to February 2014, leaving Moscow just days after […]
In a heated debate over immigration, David Bossie, the former deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump, told Democratic strategist Joel Payne, a person of color, that he is “out of [his] cotton-picking mind.” The comment by Bossie, who currently heads Citizens United, came amid a tense exchange on Fox & Friends with Payne about the […]
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Dutch figure skating officials have proposed raising the minimum eligibility age for senior figure skaters to 17, requiring 15-year-old talents to spend two more years at the junior level. Dutch International Skating Union (ISU) referee Jeroen A. Prins announced on Monday that the Netherlands issued an urgent proposal to the ISU asking to amend the […]
Two-time Olympic silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva has made her debut as a presenter of a new figure skating TV show aired on Russian television. Medvedeva debuted on Channel One’s ‘Ice Age – Kids’ show on Sunday. She co-hosted the program together with 2002 Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin, who has anchored the ‘Ice Age’ shows since […]
