#Dmitry Stepanov

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he’s got such a wonderful and familiar face. Hello boy

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Apollinariya Ageeva and Dmitry Prusakov

Apollinariya Ageeva (Subbotina) Аполлинария Агеева (Субботиниa) and Dmitry Prusakov Дмитрий Прусаков, “Saracen Dance” from “Raymonda Раймонда” (final rehearsal), music by Aleksandr Glazunov Александр Глазунов, libretto by Lidiya Pashkova Лидия Пашкова and Marius Petipa based on a medieval legend, choreo by Andris Liepa Андрис Лиепа with choreo fragments by Marius Petipa and Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский, set and costume by Vyacheslav Okunev Вячеслав Окунев, Kremlin Ballet Кремлевский балет, Great Hall of the State Kremlin Palace Большой зал Государственного Кремлёвского Дворца, Moscow, Russia (September 10, 2024).

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Santos Ch D QF: Roy Stepanov/Andres Urrea [3] def. Pedro Boscardin Dias/Dmitry Popko 6-4, 6-4 Match Stats

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Another episode where R. Stepanov/A. Urrea turned out to be in control even if they had to face a break point earlier in the match out of an unforced error. Through here, they managed to find their balance until P. Boscardin Dias/D. Popko got passed from the baseline, finding their way to break as the latter got outhit. This way, the third seeds converted 40% of their 5 break points, while despite the latter pair forced several deciding points throughout the match, they were not able to convert 3 of their break points as a result.

Interestingly, both pairs had different service game strengths as the match progressed. The third seeds mostly relied on their first serves to avoid or manage some troubles, with an exceptional 87% winning percentage aided by their 3 aces compared to P. Boscardin Dias/D. Popko's 1. On the other hand, the latter pair had a 1% more second serve winning percentage compared to their first serves with 67%, 8% more than R. Stepanov/A. Urrea as the match progressed even if they double-faulted 4 times than the latter's 2.

In their maiden Challenger-level doubles semifinals both as an individual and as a pair, R. Stepanov/A. Urrea will face the winner between Aziz Ouakaa/Leonid Sheyngezikht and Franco Roncadelli/Luciano Emanuel Ambrogi, which match will be played several timeslots after F. Roncadelli's ongoing second-round singles match against Hady Habib. While this could be intriguing for a lot of reasons, game-wise, this could put a good test on their balance, especially in transition from the baseline to the net. Should be one of those fun doubles matches to look forward to!

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Dmitri Stepanov

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Nika_02 from Dmitry Stepanov on Vimeo.

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Daniel Tompkins - Limitless (from Castles)

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PODCAST: EPISODE 28 – Daniel Tomkins (TesseracT) Talks Debut Solo Album “Castles” Ghost Cult recently chatted with TesseracT and Skyharbor singer Daniel Tomkins. Daniel released his debut solo album, Castles, on May 31st via the Kscope label.

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Could you share a little bit about the characters we meet/interact with in the hospital game? Like other doctors, patients, personnel? Nothing hugely spoilery ofc!

Sure!!

Faith Sookdeo is one of your very best friends — a fellow ER doctor, she keeps you as sane as she can through nuclear levels of sarcasm. Underneath is an enormous heart.

Pete (just Pete) is one of the ambulance drivers and a chronic flirt, also another friend of yours.

Nikolai Stepanov is the son of the most ruthless of the Five Families, the five criminal enterprises with the biggest territories in the underground. Slightly unstable, and desperate to earn his place.

Georgi Stepanov is Nikolai’s father, who likes to cultivate the appearance of a very kind, collected old man. Little does anyone know.

Lyuba is an old Jewish woman who pays Dmitri to arrange flower bouquets for the cafe her son owns.

Michael is Lyuba’s son. He’s very grumpy, but appreciates the flower bouquets.

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Anna Shcherbakova as Aisha and Dmitry Kotermin as Shah Bahram, "Seven Beauties", choreography by Vitaly Akhundov, music by Kara Karayev, libretto by Aleksandr Maksov, Rafiga Akhundova and Maksud Mamedov based on the poem of Nizami Ganjavi (Persian poet), 2021 The Soul of the Dance Award Ceremony and Ballet Gala, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus), Moscow, Russia. (April 30).

Photographer Andrey Stepanov

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like DUDE. DMITRY YOURE GETTING MARRIED!???? OH MY GOD THAT FACE!!!

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Five Time’s the Charm Ilya Yashin is not the only unregistered candidate for the Moscow City Duma against whom the tactic of consecutive arrests has been used.

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P. Boscardin Dias/D. Popko somehow had an unstable start to the second set, where there was a failed smash somewhere before their forehand errors caused R. Stepanov/A. Urrea to break early to 1-0. It took a deciding point for the third seeds to consolidate their lead to 2-0, and the former pair put their names on the board once they survived another deciding point through an unreturned serve (2-1).

In the subsequent game, P. Boscardin Dias/D. Popko notably responded to the preceding smash with a backhand pass before A. Urrea came up with a lob response to P. Boscardin Dias' volley, followed by D. Popko's forehand to precede R. Stepanov's poach from the net for an equalizer before the third seeds held their serves to 3-1. Surviving several sets of deciding points midway, R. Stepanov/A. Urrea then earned their chance to serve for the match, which they successfully did with a 0-hold (6-4) to secure their spot in the semifinals.

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L'One | 7 Days from Murad Nogmov on Vimeo.

This is a musical novel about real feelings and friendship. And this is very important video for myself, it shows a Russian culture in 100%.

Written and Directed: Levan Goroziia & Murad Nogmov DoP: Kirill Groshev

Cast: Levan Goroziia, Djordje Nikolic, Jalil Asretov, Elias Rakhim, Renat Bulikin, Vladimir Dubinin, Konstantin Romanenko, Elizaveta Yurieva, Katerina Bekker

Minor cast: Eduard Kalimullin, Igor Grunsky, Adam Bulguchev, Tatyana Orlova, Oleg Fedorov, Gennady Zuev, Vitaly Kondrashev

Bakehouse Executive Producers: Alya Lugovaya, Kostya Korobkin, Sonya Katulska Line producers: Lilia Sviridova, Nino Vasilkovskaya Production Assistant: Slava Glushonkov

1st AD: Daris Kastsiuchenka Clapper: Snegana Bobyreva

Production Designer: Anastasia Klokova 1st PDA: Daria Balashova Props Artist: Kristina Shulz PrAA: Kristina Neporozhneva PDA: Nikolay Nekrasov, Ilya Mestnik, Sergey Stepanov, Sergey Lebedev, Igor Prihodko, Nikolay Chukov, Nilolay Fedorov, Nikolay Antonov

Costumes Designers: Karolina Volbin, Anastasia Suhanova Wardrobe: Margarita Volkotrub MuA: Daria Tishaeva Prosthetics: Lana Kaun MuAA: Ekaterina Yakimenko

1AC: Andrey Pogrebnyak DIT: Yury Kharchenko Gaffer: Nikolay Vahrameev Light Crew: Sergey Irgizcev, Evgeny Gavrilov, Evgeny Maslenkov

Sound Engineer: Stanislav Paushev

Casting Director: Shorena Paziya Extras Casting Director: Anna Dulenkova Actors and Extras Assistant: Nikita Repin

Location Scout Managers: Vladimir Kravchenko, Nikolay Ivanov

Pyrotechnist: Anton Maryanov Stage Management: Alexandr Lubenko, Dmitry Vlasov, Alexandr Shohin

Buffet Lady: Olesya Trofimova Driver: Nazir Ramazanov

Props Cars: Arendakino, Max loginov, Mihail Melnikov, Alexanra Kozlova, Lady Audi, Artem Arzyamov

Editors: Vlad Yakunin, Murad Nogmov Colorist: Artem Leonov Sound-Design and Sound Postproduction: Simple Minds Sound studio Film Developing and Scan: Mosfilm Voice dubbingа: Konstantin Shpakov Backstage photo & video: Nidal Al-Makharek, Alexander Emauz, Dmitry Litvinov

Blackstar Producer: Irina Lapteva Artist: L’ONE Music: Blasian Beats, Fortune

Special thanks: Global Star Russia / World Skills Russia / SSB kino / Andrey Lyahov / Alexander Kalushkin Dmitry Suvorov / Anton Belov / Eugeny Starobinets / Octagon Fights / Nikolay Tokarev / Irina Pavlova / Alexandra Sokolova / Dmitry Maseykin / Max Malakhov

Author of the Idea: Levan Goroziia

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Kuzma

Word count: 494

Hi, it’s been a while since I posted! I’ve been writing, just not much I can actually share. I was rereading some older work and found this little bit. I’m kind of proud of it. 

Not much to say about this one. My Into Technology world that is pretty much plotless save for the character backstories and a few adventures. This bit features found family, some amnesia, and references to past trauma.

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The first, a son, spent his days learning close combat, talking with friends, and flirting with girls. 

The third, a daughter, studied tactics, technology, and manipulation under the tutelage of their father.

The second, another son, left for the Academy early on, then died during an underside excursion. 

Or, at least, that was what Kuzma had been told. 

A boy stood in front of him, thin lights from the city illuminating him from the side. He kept his hair buzzed short, just like the last time Kuzma had seen him. His clothing was definitely not Academy-issued, but worn and haphazard. There was no Stepanov crest anywhere on his person. He stood, quiet in the overly-large bedroom. 

“Dmitri?” Kuzma breathed. He clutched the door handle behind him. 

His brother flinched. “I had hoped...” He shook his head. “I’m not him. Not anymore.”

Kuzma slid the door shut with a click. Silence reigned. “Anymore?” 

“This was a bad idea.” Dmitri, or whoever it was, turned towards the large doors to the balcony. 

“Wait.” 

Dmitri paused.

“I mourned. I didn’t know you - didn’t know Dmitri - but. What happened? You were dead. Father was proud. I was sick.”

His brother seemed to consider it. His dark eyes glittered and turned. “I woke up, two years ago, scars on my arms and nothing but combat in my head. Dmitri is gone.”

“But you’re alive.”

“I’m not him.”

“You’re my brother.”

He paused. “My name is Damian. They left me with nothing. My only family is by choice.”

Kuzma didn’t respond for a moment, watching the person who used to be his brother. They both stood still. Perhaps they were testing each other. 

If it was a test, Kuzma failed. He broke the stillness first, nodding and glancing toward the only windowless wall, anywhere but the other boy’s face. “That’s fair.”

Dmitri - Damian - gave him a grim smile, then turned to the balcony doors again. 

“If you ever need more...” Family. “People to count on,” Kuzma continued, his voice just barely breaking over the new sounds of the city through the open doors. “I bet you know where I am.”

“We do.” He jumped over the railing. 

Kuzma’s heart stopped for a moment, ears straining for the sound of a drone, or the smack of a body hitting the ground several stories down. All he heard was quiet words, exchanged too lowly to make out, and the quiet tap of several people leaving the area. A cool breeze wound inside. He drifted forward on oiled boots and shut the balcony door. 

The first, a son, stared into the whispering city and missed a brother he’d never had.

The third, a daughter, read reports of underside raids with a passionless tone, the shadow of another sibling barely present, and only as a warning.

The second, a stranger, jumped through a port and out of the strange brightness of the cityside, joking with his brothers and sisters, nothing in his heart resolved.

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Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/world/europe/unit-29155-russia-gru.html

For those who have been following Putin for the last 5 or so years, starting with the invasion of Crimea, Brexit, U.S. and French Election interference in 2016 and assassinations in Europe including Skripal posionings, Putin has a plan. PLEASE READ 📖 AND SHARE this informative article. 👇👇🤔

Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say

By Michael Schwirtz | Published Oct. 8, 2019 Updated 12:00 p.m. ET | New York Times | Posted October 8, 2019 |

First came a destabilization campaign in Moldova, followed by the poisoning of an arms dealer in Bulgaria and then a thwarted coup in Montenegro. Last year, there was an attempt to assassinate a former Russian spy in Britain using a nerve agent. Though the operations bore the fingerprints of Russia’s intelligence services, the authorities initially saw them as isolated, unconnected attacks.

Western security officials have now concluded that these operations, and potentially many others, are part of a coordinated and ongoing campaign to destabilize Europe, executed by an elite unit inside the Russian intelligence system skilled in subversion, sabotage and assassination.

The group, known as Unit 29155, has operated for at least a decade, yet Western officials only recently discovered it. Intelligence officials in four Western countries say it is unclear how often the unit is mobilized and warn that it is impossible to know when and where its operatives will strike.

The purpose of Unit 29155, which has not been previously reported, underscores the degree to which the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, is actively fighting the West with his brand of so-called hybrid warfare — a blend of propaganda, hacking attacks and disinformation — as well as open military confrontation.

“I think we had forgotten how organically ruthless the Russians could be,” said Peter Zwack, a retired military intelligence officer and former defense attaché at the United States Embassy in Moscow, who said he was not aware of the unit’s existence.

In a text message, Dmitri S. Peskov, Mr. Putin’s spokesman, directed questions about the unit to the Russian Defense Ministry. The ministry did not respond to requests for comment.

Hidden behind concrete walls at the headquarters of the 161st Special Purpose Specialist Training Center in eastern Moscow, the unit sits within the command hierarchy of the Russian military intelligence agency, widely known as the G.R.U.

Though much about G.R.U. operations remains a mystery, Western intelligence agencies have begun to get a clearer picture of its underlying architecture. In the months before the 2016 presidential election, American officials say two G.R.U. cyber units, known as 26165 and 74455, hacked into the servers of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign, and then published embarrassing internal communications.

[Our correspondent Matt Apuzzo reported on Russia’s blueprint for foreign disruption on “The Weekly,” The Times’s TV show. Watch on FX and Hulu.]

Last year, Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel overseeing the inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 elections, indicted more than a dozen officers from those units, though all still remain at large. The hacking teams mostly operate from Moscow, thousands of miles from their targets.

By contrast, officers from Unit 29155 travel to and from European countries. Some are decorated veterans of Russia’s bloodiest wars, including in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Ukraine. Its operations are so secret, according to assessments by Western intelligence services, that the unit’s existence is most likely unknown even to other G.R.U. operatives.

The unit appears to be a tight-knit community. A photograph taken in 2017 shows the unit’s commander, Maj. Gen. Andrei V. Averyanov, at his daughter’s wedding in a gray suit and bow tie. He is posing with Col. Anatoly V. Chepiga, one of two officers indicted in Britain over the poisoning of a former spy, Sergei V. Skripal.

“This is a unit of the G.R.U. that has been active over the years across Europe,” said one European security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe classified intelligence matters. “It’s been a surprise that the Russians, the G.R.U., this unit, have felt free to go ahead and carry out this extreme malign activity in friendly countries. That’s been a shock.”

To varying degrees, each of the four operations linked to the unit attracted public attention, even as it took time for the authorities to confirm that they were connected. Western intelligence agencies first identified the unit after the failed 2016 coup in Montenegro, which involved a plot by two unit officers to kill the country’s prime minister and seize the Parliament building.

But officials began to grasp the unit’s specific agenda of disruption only after the March 2018 poisoning of Mr. Skripal, a former G.R.U. officer who had betrayed Russia by spying for the British. Mr. Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, fell grievously ill after exposure to a highly toxic nerve agent, but survived.

(Three other people were sickened, including a police officer and a man who found a small bottle that British officials believe was used to carry the nerve agent and gave it to his girlfriend. The girlfriend, Dawn Sturgess, died after spraying the nerve agent on her skin, mistaking the bottle for perfume.)

The poisoning led to a geopolitical standoff, with more than 20 nations, including the United States, expelling 150 Russian diplomats in a show of solidarity with Britain.

Ultimately, the British authorities exposed two suspects, who had traveled under aliases but were later identified by the investigative site Bellingcat as Colonel Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin. Six months after the poisoning, British prosecutors charged both men with transporting the nerve agent to Mr. Skripal’s home in Salisbury, England, and smearing it on his front door.

But the operation was more complex than officials revealed at the time.

Exactly a year before the poisoning, three Unit 29155 operatives traveled to Britain, possibly for a practice run, two European officials said. One was Mr. Mishkin. A second man used the alias Sergei Pavlov. Intelligence officials believe the third operative, who used the alias Sergei Fedotov, oversaw the mission.

Soon, officials established that two of these officers — the men using the names Fedotov and Pavlov — had been part of a team that attempted to poison the Bulgarian arms dealer Emilian Gebrev in 2015. (The other operatives, also known only by their aliases, according to European intelligence officials, were Ivan Lebedev, Nikolai Kononikhin, Alexey Nikitin and Danil Stepanov.)

The team would twice try to kill Mr. Gebrev, once in Sofia, the capital, and again a month later at his home on the Black Sea.

Speaking to reporters in February at the Munich Security Conference, Alex Younger, the chief of MI6, Britain’s foreign intelligence service, spoke out against the growing Russian threat and hinted at coordination, without mentioning a specific unit.

“You can see there is a concerted program of activity — and, yes, it does often involve the same people,” Mr. Younger said, pointing specifically to the Skripal poisoning and the Montenegro coup attempt. He added: “We assess there is a standing threat from the G.R.U. and the other Russian intelligence services and that very little is off limits.”

The Kremlin sees Russia as being at war with a Western liberal order that it views as an existential threat.

At a ceremony in November for the G.R.U.’s centenary, Mr. Putin stood beneath a glowing backdrop of the agency’s logo — a red carnation and an exploding grenade — and described it as “legendary.” A former intelligence officer himself, Mr. Putin drew a direct line between the Red Army spies who helped defeat the Nazis in World War II and officers of the G.R.U., whose “unique capabilities” are now deployed against a different kind of enemy.

“Unfortunately, the potential for conflict is on the rise in the world,” Mr. Putin said during the ceremony. “Provocations and outright lies are being used and attempts are being made to disrupt strategic parity.”

In 2006, Mr. Putin signed a law legalizing targeted killings abroad, the same year a team of Russian assassins used a radioactive isotope to murder Aleksander V. Litvinenko, another former Russian spy, in London.

Unit 29155 is not the only group authorized to carry out such operations, officials said. The British authorities have attributed Mr. Litvinenko’s killing to the Federal Security Service, the intelligence agency once headed by Mr. Putin that often competes with the G.R.U.

Although little is known about Unit 29155 itself, there are clues in public Russian records that suggest links to the Kremlin’s broader hybrid strategy.

A 2012 directive from the Russian Defense Ministry assigned bonuses to three units for “special achievements in military service.” One was Unit 29155. Another was Unit 74455, which was involved in the 2016 election interference. The third was Unit 99450, whose officers are believed to have been involved in the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014.

A retired G.R.U. officer with knowledge of Unit 29155 said that it specialized in preparing for “diversionary” missions, “in groups or individually — bombings, murders, anything.”

“They were serious guys who served there,” the retired officer said. “They were officers who worked undercover and as international agents.”

Photographs of the unit’s dilapidated former headquarters, which has since been abandoned, show myriad gun racks with labels for an assortment of weapons, including Belgian FN-30 sniper rifles, German G3A3s, Austrian Steyr AUGs and American M16s. There was also a form outlining a training regimen, including exercises for hand-to-hand combat. The retired G.R.U. officer confirmed the authenticity of the photographs, which were published by a Russian blogger.

The current commander, General Averyanov, graduated in 1988 from the Tashkent Military Academy in what was then the Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. It is likely that he would have fought in both the first and second Chechen wars, and he was awarded a Hero of Russia medal, the country’s highest honor, in January 2015. The two officers charged with the Skripal poisoning also received the same award.

Though an elite force, the unit appears to operate on a shoestring budget. According to Russian records, General Averyanov lives in a run-down Soviet-era building a few blocks from the unit’s headquarters and drives a 1996 VAZ 21053, a rattletrap Russia-made sedan. Operatives often share cheap accommodation to economize while on the road. British investigators say the suspects in the Skripal poisoning stayed in a low-cost hotel in Bow, a downtrodden neighborhood in East London.

But European security officials are also perplexed by the apparent sloppiness in the unit’s operations. Mr. Skripal survived the assassination attempt, as did Mr. Gebrev, the Bulgarian arms dealer. The attempted coup in Montenegro drew an enormous amount of attention, but ultimately failed. A year later, Montenegro joined NATO. It is possible, security officials say, that they have yet to discover other, more successful operations.

It is difficult to know if the messiness has bothered the Kremlin. Perhaps, intelligence experts say, it is part of the point.

“That kind of intelligence operation has become part of the psychological warfare,” said Eerik-Niiles Kross, a former intelligence chief in Estonia. “It’s not that they have become that much more aggressive. They want to be felt. It’s part of the game.”