Olympics: Russian sports machine gets a major tuneup Jul 29, 2008
A weightlifter training at the Podolsk Olympic Training Center on July 17 ... The Podolsk Olympic training center located outside Moscow was built more than a half century ago to develop the athletes who would transform the Soviet Union into an athletic superpower ... Yet the Russian athletes heading to the Beijing Olympics in a couple of weeks may be the last to train among the cracked facades of Soviet-era complexes like Podolsk. (International Herald Tribune)
Russia bent on a return to Olympic glory Jul 29, 2008
A weightlifter training at the Podolsk Olympic Training Center on July 17 ... The Podolsk Olympic training center located outside Moscow was built more than a half century ago to develop the athletes who would transform the Soviet Union into an athletic superpower ... The Russian athletes soon heading to the Beijing Olympics may be the last to train among the cracked facades of Soviet-era complexes like Podolsk. (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
Four cities bid to host world amateur boxing academy Jun 23, 2008
The candidates are Becancour, Canada; Sanya, China; Almaty, Kazakhstan; and Podolsk, Russia. The academy will train the best young amateur boxers, plus coaches, referees and judges from the 195 national federations that make up the International Boxing Association, or AIBA.. (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
Simon To Play In Russia May 20, 2008
(Sports Network) - Minnesota Wild tough guy Chris Simon has signed with Russian hockey club Vityaz Podolsk Chekhov, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The move could end Simon's NHL career, which has been marred by a pair of ugly on-ice incidents. (ABC 7 News, DC)
Putin Beats Soviet Sword Into Atomic Weapon for Selling Generator Plants Mar 15, 2008
He's starting a turbine venture with France's Alstom SA in nearby Podolsk. Today, 60 percent of electro-technical equipment for power plants in Russia is imported,'' said Komarov, a former vice president of Renova Group, the energy, metals and property empire of billionaire. (Bloomberg)
The story of borshch Mar 15, 2008
On the afternoon of March 31 2000, Boris Pasternak, editor-in-chief of the Moscow publishing house Polifakt, drove to the suburb of Podolsk to look up one of his authors, the food writer and historian Vilyam Pokhlebkin. Pokhlebkin was late delivering the final manuscript of his new book, A Century Of Cooking, and had failed either to turn up for a scheduled meeting or to respond to telegrams. (Guardian Unlimited)
How Hitler almost beat Stalin and changed history Sep 5, 2007
Boris Vidensky was a cadet at the Podolsk Military Academy when the war started and was one of the lucky few of his class who survived when they were thrown, thoroughly unprepared, against the advancing Germans. He went on to become a senior researcher at the Military History Institute in Moscow. (MSNBC -- International)
U.S. helps boost security at Russia nuke facility Aug 30, 2007
PODOLSK, Russia - Fifteen years ago, a worker at the Russian nuclear research center in Podolsk smuggled more than three pounds of weapons-grade uranium out the doors over a period of weeks, determined to sell the material on the black market ... Sam Nunn came to Podolsk to inspect $25 million worth of security measures at what is now Podolsks Luch Scientific and Industrial Association, paid for by the United States improvements that one institute official said had made any future theft... (MSNBC -- International)
Russia suspects bird flu in more farms near Moscow Feb 21, 2007
Russia's Emergencies Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that 190 domestic fowl had died between Feb. 10 and Feb. 19 in Moscow and six districts in the Moscow region -- Domodedovo, Odintsovo, Podolsk, Naro-Fominsk, Taldom and Volokolamsk. Rosselkhoznadzor said on Monday that H5N1 had been confirmed in the first five districts. (Reuters AlertNet)
Russia confirms five H5N1 bird flu outbreaks Feb 20, 2007
Controls were in place limiting movement to and from the five villages where bird flu had been found since Friday, in the Taldom, Domodedovo, Podolsk, Naro-Fominsk and Odintsovo districts, and the Sadovod market would remain closed until further checks had been carried out, he said. The Moscow Region prosecutor said in a statement that a criminal investigation was under way to determine whether veterinary regulations had been breached at the market, and confirmed that residents of the five... (Reuters AlertNet)
1 mln birds to be vaccinated from bird flu near Moscow Feb 20, 2007
The Emergency Situations Ministry has said 150 dead birds were found at private farms in the Domodedovo, the Odintsovo, the Podolsk, the Naro-Fominsk and the Taldom districts of the Moscow Region last week, but that no cases of humans infected by the virus have been registered so far. Moscow's veterinary and food safety experts have urged local residents to avoid buying poultry at unauthorized locations. (RIA Novosti)
Indonesia and World Health Organization reach accord on bird flu virus samples Feb 19, 2007
He said officials were still awaiting results on tests taken in a third suburban district, Podolsk, where 44 birds were reported to have died Saturday. Earlier, Nikolai Vlasov, a Rosselkhoznadzor veterinary official, said in televised comments that two dozen birds on Friday had been reported dead in the two districts. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Tests confirm bird flu in 2 Moscow suburbs Feb 18, 2007
He said officials were still awaiting results on tests in a third suburb, Podolsk, where 44 birds were reported to have died Saturday. No human cases of bird flu have been reported in Russia. (Buffalo News -- National)
Bird flu found in Moscow Feb 18, 2007
He said officials were still awaiting results on tests taken in a third suburban district, Podolsk, where 44 birds were reported to have died on Saturday. Russia had its first reported cases of the H5N1 strain in Siberia in 2005, and outbreaks have since occurred farther west, but mostly in southern areas distant from the capital. (USA Today)
