They are residing in clandestine apartments and suburban houses, he said. She underwent speech therapy, but she still speaks slowly, the coach added. Many of the skaters that took part in the team competition, including American star Nathan Chen and Russians Mark Kondratiuk, are due to leave Beijing shortly after competing Thursdays free skate. Involvement of nitric oxide in photodynamic injury of neurons and glial cells. Mamula Mamulashvili, the commander of the Georgian Legion, which participated in the field executions of wounded Russian POWs. As he wiped out his opposition, Zelenskyorderedan unprecedented domestic propaganda initiative to nationalize all television news broadcasting andcombineall channels into a single 24 hour channel called United News to tell the truth about war.. After the compulsory dance, worth 20 percent of the overall score, Olympic gold medalists Oksana Grishuk and Evgeni Platov are first, rivals Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsyannikov are second, and Canadians Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz are third. . "The media is making us like bad guys. Resident give testimony as to the war crimes perpetrated by UAF and Azov fighters. "Let's speak about her health. Yevhen Karas, the founder of theinfamous neo-Nazi C14 unit, has detailed the close relationship his gang and other extreme right factions have enjoyed with the SBU. There are simply hundreds and hundreds of video clips and photos showing these events, which are outlined in anotherarticle. Together Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze won 27 gold, 9 silver and 5 bronze medals, all in . A day before his murder, Struk hadreportedlyurged his Ukrainian colleagues to negotiate with pro-Russian officials. Worse still, is the participation of the likes of Azov, Right Sector and others in the detentions and also disappearances of people. Once again, the moral high ground as avidly promoted by thousands of NGOs, think tanks and a multitude of reports, dissipates rapidly in reality into a dark void. If the Russian team is disqualified, the U.S. team would be elevated to the gold medal for the first time in the event. Elena Berezhnaya, a well-known human rights activist is also arrested. This March 3 in the city of Dnipro, SBU officers accompanied by Azov ultra-nationalists raided the home of activists with the Livizja (Left) organization, which has organized against social spending cuts and right-wing media propaganda. AsZelensky proclaimed during a visit to the city of Buchathis April, if we do not find a civilized way out, you know our people they will find an uncivilized way out., And then there is the war against civilians. Articles Cited by Public access Co-authors. Another aspect to consider is that many lawyers do not wish to represent these people, as doing so may lead to being accused of being an accessory and likewise accused of being agents of the enemy. We are not bad guys. The fate of at least a dozen well-known opposition activists, political analysts, journalists, politicians, and bloggers remains unclear. Berezhnaya, who was eighth at the 1994 Olympic Games in Norway with Sliakhov, never lost consciousness after the accident, Moskvina said. She was slashed on the head when her ex-partner, Oleg Sliakhov, clipped her with a skate blade as they performed side-by-side camel spins. Sikharulidze was Berezhnaya's boyfriend at. Reporters asked the Kremlin about the potential doping issue late Wednesday amid speculation that the gold medals won by Valieva and five other Russian skaters that took part in the team competition could be at risk. Elena Berezhnaya started skating when she was quite young. IOC spokesman Mark Adams said Wednesday that legal consultation was required between the Olympic committee and the International Skating Union. Dmitry Djangirov, Dmytro Djangirov, and Dmitry Dzhangirov are some of his other names. In fact, the Ukrainian government has begunusing notoriously invasive facial recognition technologyfromClearview AI,a US tech company, to identify Russian casualties and taunt their relatives on social media. Wrote just before his arrest: They came for me, it was a pleasure to talk. A Ukrainian journalist, Oles Buzina, had his personal details published on the site in 2015, which led to his murder shortly afterwards. Russian skaters in particular have a history of positive results dating to 2000, when decorated pairs skater Elena Berezhnaya was stripped of a gold medal from the European championships for . Vassily Prozorov, a former SBU officer who defected to Russia following the Euromaidan coup, detailed the post-Maidan security services systemic reliance on torture to crush political opposition and intimidate citizens accused of Russian sympathies. And she feared him, even though she lived with his family. The worst cases are carried out by paramilitary and ultra-nationalist units. Ref: The daughter of Mikhail Viacheslavov, burned alive on 2 May 2014, in the Odessa House of Trade Unions. I feel good.". His bodyguards tried to use firearms to prevent Shufrychs detention, one of the soldiers told RFE/RL, adding that all four had been handed over to the police. Pummeled to the sound of the Ukrainian national anthem, the Russian prisoners were brutalized until they confessed their hatred for Putin. N E W Y O R K, July 31, 2002 -- An alleged Russian mob boss was arrested and charged with plotting to fix the ice-dancing and pairs figure-skating competitions in the 2002 Winter Olympics . Below, Russias RIA Novosti profiled Prozorov and covered his disclosures in a 2019 special. The Ukrainian government knows this, more so since Zelensky, since heappointed Oleksandr Pokladas the SBUs counter-intelligence chief in 2021. Another paramilitary group, Right Sector also has wide connections with the SBU. Russian skaters in particular have a history of positive results dating to 2000, when decorated pairs skater Elena Berezhnaya was stripped of a gold medal from the European championships for . Over the last 8 years of the Ukraine War he has made more video reports in anti-Ukraine Government (Donetsk Peoples Republic) controlled territory than any other western journalist. The fourth episode on Netlfix's 'Bad Sport' titled 'Gold War' visits the competitive world of figure skating. When Russian figure skaters Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze took home gold with a less than worthy performance in the 2002 Winter Olympics, a scoring controversy in the sport was exposed, leading to a complete revamp of the point system. He subsequently learned that Igor was held by the SBU at the time and being used to bait Shariy into disclosing his location. Obviously, a highly repressive with systematic serious human rights abuses committed against civilians, by members of the military and police are not an impediment to being part of the European and NATO family. He was released by the SBU the next day. The passage of, The Ukrainian security service known as the SBU has served as the main enforcer of the post-Maidan governments campaign of domestic political repression. Remember that Zelensky has now outlawed all opposition parties but not all, those parties who support him are allowed to continue, with ultra-nationalists & Neo-Nazis part of these political parties and who happen to be highly influential too. Her pairs partner, Anton, calls Elena Kisa, which means 'kitten' in Russian, while she calls him Kislota--acid. In one especially cynical example of the strategy, Ukraine 24 a TV channel where guests havecalled for the genocidal exterminationof Russian children published a photo this April depicting a female corpse branded with a bloody swastika on her stomach. Elena Berezhnaya remembers only that she was spinning "too close" to her pairs partner as they practiced side-by-side camel spins alone in a rink in Riga, Latvia, 14 months ago. Support the news and programs youll rely on in 2023 and beyond! We never talked to judges. More AP Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/winter-olympics and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports. "I know they will do it sometime, I just didn't know it could be this year.". The drug detected, trimetazidine, is a metabolic agent that helps prevent angina attacks and treats vertigo, according to the European Unions medicines agency. Hes also covered the Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict reaching over 8 million aggregate views on hisYouTube channelwith his reporting on the ground there. The first indication of a problem with the results of the three-day team competition which concluded Monday with Russia winning gold, the U.S. silver and Japan bronze came when the medal ceremony was postponed indefinitely. On March 1, for example, Volodymyr Strok, the mayor of the eastern city of Kreminna in the Ukrainian-controlled side of Lugansk, was kidnapped by men in military uniform, according to his wife, andshot in the heart. V Kovaleva, E Berezhnaya, M Komandirov, M Rudkovskii, A Uzdensky. A separate video published by Ukrainian and US-backed Georgian Legion soldiers showed the fighterscarrying out field executionsof wounded Russian captives near a village outside Kiev. Still, many of her friends and associates in skating are troubled. A member of the Ukrainian government negotiating team. Seemingly countless videos have appeared on social media showing civilians tied to lamp posts, often with their genitals exposed or their faces painted green. "Her face is not as it was," said her New York-based manager, Yuki Saegusa. While the Western media has focused squarely on alleged Russian human rights abuses since the outbreak of war, Ukrainian soldiers and pro-Ukrainian social media accounts have proudly exhibited sadistic war crimes, from field executions to the torture of captive soldiers. The next day, a video appeared on social networks, in which Khazan slandered the party chairman Anatoli Shariy. Both were, In the following days, the SBU arrested broadcast journalist Yan Taksyur and charged him with treason; human rights activist Elena Berezhnaya; Elena Viacheslavova, a human rights advocate whose father, Mikhail, was burned to death during the, Perhaps the most ghastly incident of repression took place when neo-Nazis backed by the Ukrainian government kidnapped Maxim Ryndovskiy, a professional MMA fighter, and, Ukraines SBU has even hunted opposition figures outside the countrys borders. In 2021, Zelensky appointed one of Ukraines most notorious intelligence figures, Oleksander Poklad, to lead SBUs counterintelligence division. The couple stood on the ice for the first time last March. Ref:No contact or information on his current status. The injury had been an accident, but Berezhnaya had quarreled often with her former partner, Oleg Sliakhov, and said she had become afraid of him. Nonselective inhibitors of histone deacetylases (HDAC) can. While Vasylenko left the photo online, Arestovych deleted it eight hours after posting when confronted with the fact that he had published a fake. Elena Viktorovna Berezhnaya (Russian: , born 11 October 1977) is a Russian former pair skater. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has framed his countrys war against Russia as a battle for democracy itself. Accused of: treason and illegal enrichment. Mykola Azarov made references to death squads in a video. Other recent instances of the rule of themob,ultra-nationalist, territorial defense enforcers: 13 March, the house of Dmitry Lazarev, a left-wing activist, was burnt down, (in a village near Odessa). ", "Now," Berezhnaya said, "I don't have any problems with my health. As per the show, Oleg was abusive and temperamental, leading to tension during their practices and performances. Prylipko hadreportedly entered into negotiationswith the Russian military to organize a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of his citys residents a red line for Ukrainian ultra-nationalists who had long been in conflict with the mayors office. Lets, for the sake of understanding, wait for some explanations either from our sports officials or from the IOC, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. The most famous case of trimetazidine in sports doping involved Chinese star swimmer Sun Yang. Here's what happened to Russian figure skaters Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze after the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. However, they frequently come to the SBUs central office for holding, for example, specific meetings or plotting secret operations.. Last year, she narrowly lost her title to Michelle Kwan. Zelensky proclaimed during a visit to the city of Bucha, REPORT: Murdered Civilians Found in Mariupol After Ukraine Forces Retreat. Yan Taksyur. The couple retired after the 2002 controversy, skating in exhibitions like "Stars on Ice," alongside Jamie Sal and David Pelletier from the Canadian team with which they shared the gold medal from the '02 games. I only know about the Grushina/Goncharov - Shae/Nikolai break . Russian skaters in particular have a history of positive results dating to 2000, when decorated pairs skater Elena Berezhnaya was stripped of a gold medal from the European championships for testing positive for pseudoephedrine. While we have all heard about the egregious processes that took place in the USA, a witch hunt for suspected communists, better known McCarthyism, a similar course of action is taking place in Ukraine. Berezhnaya, who was eighth at the 1994 Olympic Games in Norway with Sliakhov, never lost consciousness after the accident, Moskvina said. . Worse still, is the participation of the likes of Azov, Right Sector and others in the detentions and also disappearances of people. Current whereabouts unknown. In fact, the Ukrainian government has begun, Photos distributed by pro-Ukraine Telegram channels showing captured, tortured and executed Russian soldiers, Video has also emerged this April showing Ukrainian soldiers, Ukrainian and Georgian Legion fighters celebrate after executing captive Russian soldiers on video. The post-Maidan regime has focused its wrath on Ukrainians who have advocated a peace settlement with pro-Russian separatists in the countrys east, those who have documented human rights abuses by the Ukrainian military, and members of communist organizations. Posted on 3/26/22 at 11:46 am. This evening at the world figure skating championships, however, Moskvina could most definitely speak once again about Berezhnaya's future as a skater. She was a 5-time Soviet Champion in Singles, and 2-time Soviet Champion in Pairs with different partners: Alexander Gavrilov and Alexei Mishin. With partner Anton Sikharulidze, she is the 1998 and 1999 World champion, 1998 Olympic silver medalist and 2002 Olympic champion . Several journalists and Ukrainian dissidents, including the prominent columnist, Common Ukrainian citizens have also been subjected to torture since the start of the war this February. As a result, an additional gold medal was awarded to the Canadian team, who were given silver at first with what many felt was a superior performance to the Russians, per Britannica. She recovered rapidly and began competing again in November 1996 with new partner, Anton Sikharulidze. Extrajudicial killings, harassment, arbitrary detentions by men in camouflaged uniforms, beatings and disappearances continue to take place on a regular basis in Ukraine. Elena Viktorovna Berezhnaya ( Russian: , born 11 October 1977) is a Russian former pair skater. It must remembered that the Ukrainian authorities have continued to use a database, the Mirotvorets (Peacekeeper) website, to highlight those that they consider as enemies of Ukraine. Accused of: allegedly for having pro-Russian position and suspicion of treason. She began skating carefully with Anton's help. Figure skaters Anton Sikharulidze and Elena Berezhnaya of Russia stand with David Pelletier and Jamie Sale of Canada pose for a photograph with their. Elena had to go through two major neurosurgery operations. Zelensky justified locking away his leading rival on the grounds that he needed to fight against the danger of Russian aggression in the information arena.. The accident caused partial paralysis on her right side, and doctors were unsure if she would walk again. I study the role of mitochondrial calcium in physiology and disease. Igor said he overheard Russian POWs being beaten with pipes by Territorial Defense volunteers being coached by SBU officers. They soared into third place in the short program and the crowd stood and roared, admiring a soulful performance and acknowledging Berezhnaya's grit and grace. There they continued to interrogate us and threatened to cut off our ears, Matjuschenkos wifetold the leftist German publication Junge Welt. Her dance partner when she was around 14 years old was Oleg Shliakhov. Could you expand on that one please Annie? In reality, this is a fraction of what took place, given the one-sided assessment of many of these reports in the first place. Accused of: having trained with MMA fighters from the Chechen Ahmat club during his sports career. Charged with participation in the aggressive war. By then, it was too late; her qualifying performance Monday was dismal. Since Russian troops entered Ukraine on February 24, Ukraines SBU security service had been on a rampage against any and all iterations of internal political opposition. Jenni Meno and Todd Sand of the United States are fourth, ahead of teammates Kyoko Ina and Jason Dungjen. In March 2022 he was the subject of media coverage internationally due to his kidnapping and death. During training, Oleg Shlyakhov hit the girl's temple with the blade of his skate. She is the heavy favorite. Elena Berezhnaya (Human rights activist / ex-figure skater) Dmitry Dzhangirov, (TV presenter, political scientist); Yuriy Dudkin, (political scientist); Maxim Rindkovsky (MMA fighter); Dmitry Skvortsov (journalist); Aleksandr Matiushenko (activist organisation "Livytsia"); Oleg Smetanin (violinist); The road to victory turned out to be incredibly difficult. Poklad is nicknamed The Strangler, a reference to hisreputationfor using torture and assorted dirty tricks to set-up his bosses political rivals on treason charges. The Ukrainian authorities and associated ultra-nationalist groups are after people who were not only very critical of the former but also the current Ukrainian government. Episode #81: Tamara Moskvina. While Western media homes in on Russian human rights violations at home and inside Ukraine, the Ukrainian government has authorized a propaganda campaignknown as Total Warthat includes the planting of bogus images and false stories to further implicate Russia. But if I was her mother, I would cry. Accused of: allegedly providing Russia with intelligence. Russian figure skater Elena Berezhnaya and her dance partner, Russian figure skater Anton Sikharulidze, competing for Latvia in the pair skating. He was subsequently forced to make a anti-Russian speech on camera and on his YouTube channel as well. In fact, the image was pulled from footage originally recorded by Patrick Lancaster, a Donetsk-based US journalist who had filmed the corpse of a woman tortured and murdered by members of the Ukrainian Azov Battalion in a Mariupol school basement they had converted into a base. Her speech was "damaged," Moskvina said. Ref: Reportedly detained by the 206th Territorial Defense Battalion. Sikharulidze and Berezhnaya, left, wound up sharing the gold medal with Sale and Pelletier. On 9 January 1996, Berezhnaya was seriously injured when Shliakhov's blade sliced into her skull while the pair were practicing a side-by-side camel spin in Riga. Two surgical operations were performed to remove bone fragments from her brain. Then they put bags over our heads, tied our hands with tape and took us to the SBU building in a car. After unsuccessfully teaming up with Aleksandr Ruchkin, her coach's son, Berezhnaya teamed up with Latvian Oegs ahovs and they skated together more than five years. In addition, he has a keen interest in Ukrainian politics. Ref: Managed to write on Telegram: They came for me. Next, on March 24, Gennady Matsegora, the mayor of Kupyansk in northeastern Ukraine, released a video (below) appealing to President Volodymyr Zelensky and his administration for the release of his daughter, who had been held hostage by agents of the Ukrainian SBU intelligence agency. Two years ago, China's Lu Chen was the world champion of women's skating. What Happened To Russian Figure Skating Pair Elena Berezhnaya And Anton Sikharulidze. His friends are now looking for a lawyer, Taksyurs son Ilya told theUnion of Orthodox Journalists. A day before his murder, Struk had. A figure skating scandal at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games saw Canadians Jamie Sal and David Pelletier briefly lose the gold medal to Russians Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze; in . The founder of the second largest party in Ukraine, the now-illegal Patriots for Life, Medvedchuk is the de facto representative of the countrys ethnic Russian population. The last person named is Elena Berezhnaya, a famous Russian pair skater. Russia's Elena Berezhnaya can tell you about the perils of pairs. Ref: He was severely beaten during his arrest by the SBU. Two years ago, Berezhnaya lay near death with a brain injury. He gave few details, but Adams acknowledged that we have athletes that have won medals involved.. Dont think ill of me. Berezhnaya, 19, and her new partner and boyfriend, Anton Sikharulidze, 20, skated a flawless classical performance in the pairs short program to finish third and be perfectly positioned to win a medal Wednesday night in their first world championships together. now everything is fine.". Accused of: spreading pro-Russian and pro-Belarusian views. and treason. Poklad is nicknamed The Strangler, a reference to his, Ukrainian soldiers use of the cellphones of dead Russian soldiers to mock and hector their relatives appears to be a common practice. CAPTION: Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze skate to third place in the pairs short program at world championships. When did Elena Berezhnaya first compete in the Olympics? Sikharulidze, who knew Berezhnaya and was hoping to begin training with her, took a train to Riga, checked her out of the hospital, and brought her to St. Petersburg. Doctors cleaned out the wound and hoped for the best. With partner Anton Sikharulidze, she is the 1998 and 1999 World champion, 1998 Olympic silver medalist and 2002 Olympic champion. The worst was when they put a plastic bag over my head and suffocated me and when they held the muzzle of a Kalashnikov rifle to my head and forced me to answer their questions.. Ukrainian journalist Dmitri Djangirow is well-known. . I speak for the Georgian Legion, we will never take Russian soldiers prisoner. "The doctors said, 'Let's not speak of her future as a skater. He also added that Struk was judged by the court of the people and called hime a traitor. She doesn't remember the toe pick of Oleg Sliakhov's skate catching her on the left side of her head. Moskvina began teaching them slowly, cautiously. Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, celebrated the mayors murder,declaring on his Telegram page(see below): There is one less traitor in Ukraine. Nov 2018 - Present4 years 7 months. Accused of: passing information about an airport to the Russians. I focus is on the . Elena Berezhnaya. Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, the first head of the SBU after the Euromaidan regime change operation of 2013-14, nurtured close ties to Washington when he served as general consul to the Ukrainian embassy to the US during the George W. Bush administration. People have been reportedlykilledfor not pronouncing the shibboleth word correctly and thus assumed to be part of subversive Russian reconnaissance groups. The so-called "greatest sports team ever assembled" came together to compete for the USA in basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympic games. When she first arrived at the hospital in Latvia, she saw a skater who was motionless and speechless. Dont wait. While training together in January 1996, she suffered a serious injury, leaving her partly paralyzed and unable to speak. . Western media outlets have been following the Kiev line without exception,claimingthat all mayors been arrested by the Russian military. I don't have enough money to buy nine judges. Goodbye. Whereabouts unknown. Not a single one of them will be taken prisoner., Similarly, Gennadiy Druzenko, the head of the Ukrainian military medical service,stated in an interview with Ukraine 24that he issued an order to castrate all Russian men because they were subhuman and worse than cockroaches..