#rostelecom 2021

[theskatingarchive]

Matteo Rizzo (ITA)

2021 Rostelecom Cup Free Skate (173.02)

[figureskatingcostumes]

Sara Hurtado and Kirill Khaliavin's free dance costumes at the 2021 Finlandia Trophy and 2021 Rostelecom Cup. They skated to Since I've Been Loving You and Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin.

(Sources: 1, 2, 3 and 4)

[turkicculture]

⭐️Kamila Valieva

◾️Valieva was born on 26 April 2006 in Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. She is of Volga Tatar ethnicity.

She is the;

📍2022 European champion

📍2021 Rostelecom Cup champion

📍2021 Skate Canada champion

And a three-time Russian national medalist

Cr@/nomadaesthetic on tw

[veritphoto]

Sara Hurtado & Kirill Khaliavin — Partition / Mi Gente RD at Rostelecom Cup 2021

[jaguarmen99]

フィギュアスケート女子のカミラ・ワリエワ（Kamila Valieva、ロシア）が、北京冬季五輪期間中に発覚したドーピング違反の原因について、祖父が作ったイチゴのデザートだった可能性があると主張していたことが分かった。 　2021年12月に狭心症の治療薬トリメタジジン（Trimetazidine）に陽性反応を示したワリエワは、先月に4年間の資格停止処分を受けた。ワリエワの祖父は人工心臓の手術を受けてからこの薬を服用していた。 　スポーツ仲裁裁判所（CAS）が7日に公表した裁定の全文によると、ワリエワは2021年のロシア選手権（Rostelecom Russian Nationals 2021）直前にイチゴのデザートを食べたが、これは「同選手の祖父が普段治療薬を砕くのに使っていたまな板で作ったもの」で、そこで薬物が混入した食べ物が体内に入った可能性があると主張したとされている。 　ワリエワは��前にも、祖父と一緒に使っていた「カトラリーの汚染」を原因に挙げていたほか、祖父が薬を服用するのに使っていたグラスを共有していた可能性もあると説明していた。 　ワリエワは北京五輪の団体でロシア五輪委員会（ROC）の金メダル獲得に貢献したが、処分を受けて同選手の得点が差し引かれた結果、米国が優勝に繰り上がりとなり、ROCは銅メダルに降格となった。(c)AFP

ワリエワ、「イチゴのデザート」に薬物混入と主張　写真2枚　国際ニュース：AFPBB News

[erichold]

The Buro: Owners of EU Microprocessor Plant Shipped Chips to Russia Despite Sanctions

Businessmen that own a plant in Latvia shipped microchips used to build drones to Russia despite Western sanctions in the wake of the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.

When Russian troops poured over the border with Ukraine in early 2022, SMD Baltic, a Latvia-based microchip firm with a plant in the city of Daugavpils, publicly condemned the invasion and stated that it would no longer take orders from Russian or Belarussian firms. 

But in fact its Belarussian owners, Siarhei Khvalko, Maksim Bohush, Siarhei Sayavets, and Latvian citizen Dmitrijs Radkevičs, reportedly continued to export Western-made chips to Russia using a secretive network of companies, according to The Buro’s most recent investigation.

Prior to the invasion of Ukraine, the SMD Baltic plant shipped around half of its products, which included microchips and was worth almost $1.2 million in 2021, to a single Russian firm called Novaya Elektronnaya Kompaniya (NEK) and owned by the same three Belarusian businessmen.

By the time the EU and U.S. banned the sale of microchips to Russia in late 2022, NEK had devised new supply chains through Kazakhstan, Turkey, and China. The Russian firm imported $1.3 million worth of electronic components into Russia in 2023, among them chips made by U.S. firms — therefore subject to U.S. sanctions — Intel, Texas Instruments, and Analog Devices.

"Any goods with U.S. inputs (production machinery, intellectual property, components, etc.) falls under U.S. export controls no matter where they are manufactured," Benjamin Hilgenstock, a senior economist at the Kyiv School of Economics and a member of the international working group on sanctions against Russia, told The Buro.

Texas Instruments and Analog Devices told the outlet that they did not do business with the company mentioned above, which supplied American chips to Russia.  

In late 2023, the trio of businessmen sold NEK to Vitaly Privolnev, who had managed the firm since 2016. The Buro believes that the Privolnev is likely a front for the three original owners.

Through another firm registered in Minsk, called SkyGlobal, Khvalko reportedly supplied Russia with 230,000 Western made parts, worth $1.5 million. The recipient, a company called Bulat, is controlled by two U.S. sanctioned entities: Rostelecom and the Elvees Research and Production Center.

In 2021, SMD BY, another company owned by Khvalko, Bohush, Radkevičs and SMD Baltic manager Pāvels Levins, opened a manufacturing facility in a Belarussian business park to supply the Eurasian Economic Union with electronic circuit boards.

After renaming itself “Micromount” three months after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the firm began selling semiconductors to Russian firm Kontraktika which is owned by an associate of theirs, Vital Khatsuk.

Khatsuk formerly worked for Alsochip, a Belarussian company owned by Khvalko and Bohush.

The Buro’s investigation also revealed that since 2023, one of Micromount’s biggest customers has been Geoscan, a Russian technology conglomerate based in St Petersburg, to which it sold over $1 million dollars worth of components. 

The United States sanctioned Geoscan for its role in producing drones for the Kremlin’s war effort. Innopraktika, a fund managed by Vladimir Putin’s youngest daughter, Katerina Tikhonova, owns a 10% stake in the group.

Micromount also sold electronic components to Reglab, part of the Prosoft-Sistemy group. Before the war, the latter enjoyed a close relationship with Uralvagonzavod, the world’s biggest tank manufacturer.

When The Buro presented to Khvalko, he told them that “[w]e don't work with anything related to war. This is our principled position.”

Although violating sanctions by shipping Western chips to Russia, Khvalko and his partners are thought to have made at least $2.5 million and the revenues of SkyGlobal and Micromount increased by factors of 70 and 12, respectively.

[digitrenndsamr]

Pay TV Market Advanced Technology and New Innovations by 2028

Allied Market Research, titled, “Pay TV Market By Type and Application: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2021–2028”, the global pay TV market size was valued at $182.32 billion in 2020, and is projected to reach $203.13 billion by 2028, registering a CAGR of 1.5% during 2021 to 2028.

Pay TV is subscription-based TV services provided by the multichannel television providers. The major types of pay TV includes cable TV, satellite TV and IPTV. The cable TV is widely used by consumers in residential and commercial applications. The satellite TV is a broadcasting TV. It is a wireless service to deliver television programming directly to the viewer’s house. IPTV refers to Internet based Protocol Television where internet is used to deliver TV programs to the viewer’s location. Pay TV offers programs such as movies, sport events, news channel and educational programs.  

Factors such as the increasing number of subscriptions, the launch of new television channels, and innovative features in the pay TV drive the pay TV market growth. Recent innovations such as high-definition equipment have enabled pay TV to reach a wider audience base. In addition, an increase in demand for subscription-based channels and the high penetration of IPTV in developed countries are expected to drive market growth. Further, the reduction in the subscription charges and the technologically advanced equipment for the pay TV are estimated to contribute towards the growth of the pay TV market share. 

The market players such as DirecTV, Charter Communications and Tata Sky are focusing their investment on technologically advanced products. For instance, AT&T’s DirecTV has launched its new internet TV and it’ll come over the internet rather than a satellite dish. The AT&T has been testing the service in 13 markets and is now making it available to anyone. Charter Communications (Spectrum) added Chromecast compatibility to the Spectrum TV app, to allow its subscribers with even more options for viewing live and on demand content. Also, Tata Sky has launched a new Android-powered set-top box called Tata Sky Binge+ in India that offers a seamless experience of watching TV channels and entertainment apps on one screen. 

COVID-19 Impact Analysis

The COVID-19 has impacted severely on the global electronics and semiconductor sector, due to which production facility as well as new projects have stalled, which have increased the demand in the industries. The operations of the production and manufacturing industries have been heavily impacted by the outbreak of the COVID-19 disease; Moreover, the increase in demand for the pay TV in the COVID-19 situation has contributed toward the growth of the pay TV market trends in 2020. 

Key Findings of the Study

By type, the cable TV segment generated the highest revenue in the pay TV market analysis in 2020.

By application, the residential generated the highest revenue in the global market.

The key players profiled in this report include Airtel Digital TV, DirecTV, DISH Network Corporation, Dish TV India Limited, Foxtel, Rostelecom, Charter Communications (Spectrum), Tata Sky, Xfinity (Comcast Corporation). These key players have adopted several strategies, such as new product launch & development, acquisition, partnership & collaboration, and business expansion, to increase their footprint in the pay TV industry during the forecast period. 

[beautifulstorms]

Roman Sadovsky, Chasing Cars || Rostelecom 2021

[gealach-edits]

Kamila Valieva, “In Memoriam” at Rostelecom Cup 2021

bonus:

[goldenoreosclub]

Mikhail Kolyada | The Nutcracker, Rostelecom Cup 2021

[theskatingarchive]

樋口 新葉 Wakaba Higuchi

General Tag

Competitive Program

2016/17 -> FS: Scheherazade

GP France 2016: FS

2017/18 -> SP: Don Quixote, FS: James Bond

Rostelecom Cup 2017: SP

Worlds 2018: FS

2019/20 -> SP: Bird Set Free

JNats 2019: SP

4CC 2020: SP

2020/21 -> FS: Poeta

NHK Trophy 2020: FS

2021/22 -> SP: Your Song, FS: The Lion King

GP France 2021: FS

Olympics 2022: SP, FS

2023/24 -> SP: Never Tear Us Apart, FS: Fix You

GP France 2023: SP, FS

2024/25 -> SP: Dune, FS: Nature Boy/Running Up That Hill

Skate America: SP, FS

Worlds 2025: SP, FS

Gala/Show Programs

Your Song: SOI

[figureskatingcostumes]

Tiffany Zagorski and Jonathan Guerreiro's free dance costumes at the 2020 Rostelecom Cup and 2021 Russian Championships. They skated to Survivor (originally by Destiny's Child but covered by 2WEI).

(Sources: 1, 2 and 3)

[raininyourblackeyes]

Ladies at GPF are really going to be Kaori vs five Russians, huh

[yunamaocaro]

maybe if misha (kolyada) had a barbie pink costume and a beautiful arabesque spiral he would skate that fucking nutcracker program clean

[veritphoto]

Keiji Tanaka — Evangelion SP (Practice) at Rostelecom Cup 2021

[twizzleenthusiast]

Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker | FD | Rostelecom Cup 2021, Sochi