I love how petty they were! The battle of two roosters 🐓🐓
So, roosters can coexist in large flocks, but it can be riskier in smaller flocks. In fact, some breeders keep one rooster for every two or five hens. However, if two roosters face off, the submissive rooster may be injured if he doesn't have enough room to get away.
I swear I haven't been to pitpensgossip - “the actual insider blog” for a long time. In no way did we mention them or confront them. But I'm just dying of laughter right now !!!!!
Anna worked on tv at in real time and posted Niki's hockey and judo workouts from Moscow 😂
Anon is right. All their movements are thoroughly known from a huge number of open sources 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
Anna and Nikita arrived in Pittsburgh only at the end of January 2022. The difference between October and January is too big to be mistaken. Especially since Malkin himself was not regularly in Pitt in the fall of 2021. At that time, he was injured and was recovering in Miami. I remember his joint training stuff with Ilya Kovalchuk in Florida.
Nice to see Ilya Kovalchuk back in action, and with his childhood team Spartak Moscow as well! That's Tyler Graovac of Kunlun Red Star pursuing Kovi in the photo. (Image Source)
As a new feature for Perfectionist Wannabe, I present The Interview. Here, I am sharing the stories of the people I’ve met over the years. These stories go back to the start of my professional writing career, when I was a beat reporter covering the New Jersey Devils (NHL) for Inside Hockey. Over the decade following my hockey writing career, I interviewed authors and filmmakers. Now? The…
PITTSBURGH – I've received a ton of e-mail over the past couple of days regarding Ilya Kovalchuk's taunting of Sidney Crosby on Friday night, and of the mugging officials let take place in the following game between the Thrashers and Penguins on Saturday night.
In Saturday's game, Crosby was called for diving in the second period, even though the replay, albeit not the perfect angle, showed the kid being hauled down at high speed with Niclas Havelid's stick in his face.
Sid's taken a lot of heat for being a diver in his rookie season, but this was the first time he has been called for it. The whole thing started back in November when he complained in Philadelphia about taking stick-work to the face from Darien Hatcher and received an unsportsmanlike call himself. The Flyers – including coach Ken Hitchcock, star Peter Forsberg, and their merry band of followers the Philadelphia media all suggested Crosby was a diver. The seed was planted.
But what readers are most incensed about is why no one on the Penguins is protecting Crosby on the ice. When he took an illegal cross-check from Kovalchuk that wasn't called on Friday, why did no one jump to his defence?
Even Don Cherry, who has made himself out to be no big Crosby fan in the past, said on Coaches' Corner that it's "ridiculous" the Penguins star rookie has to fend for himself against nightly cross-checks, high-sticking and holding.
"Someone should've broken his [Kovalchuk's] arm but they didn't," Cherry said.
That may have been going a little too far, but it would have been nice to see someone step in and give the arrogant Thrashers star a taste of his own medicine.
Meanwhile on Monday, Crosby said he's realized he's going to have to keep his emotions under control, so he's not spending eight minutes a night in the penalty box hurting his team.
But even if he takes his lumps, it doesn't mean they are going to stop being dished out.
the devils lost a first round pick for signing ilya kovalchuk to a contract that was legal at the time and the coyotes lost a first round pick for doing pre-draft workouts. chicago completely failed kyle beach, lost no picks, and got a generational talent for all their "trouble", not to mention everything else wrong with that franchise. i'm so fucking disappointed in this league
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s daughter Maria Vorontsova earns hundreds of millions of rubles per year from her stake in Nomeco, a company which receives all its money from a healthcare facility called the Sogaz clinic, according to a new investigation by jailed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny’s associates.
Vorontsova is an endocrinologist by profession. According to the Navalny team’s investigation, she earns around 200,000 rubles ($2,280) per month through her work:
110,000 rubles ($1,250) for her work at Moscow State University in the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine,
35,000 rubles ($400) from the Russian Association of Endocrinologists,
48,000 rubles ($550) from the Ministry of Health’s National Medical Research Center of Endocrinology.
But Vorontsova earns far more as a member of the board of directors of Nomeco, a company she founded in 2019, according to the investigation. Nomeco’s website says it focuses on innovative technologies in the field of medicine. The investigation’s authors note that the website’s “company news” page primarily posts congratulatory messages for various holidays.
Nomeco, which employed only five people in 2022, generates millions of rubles in net profits per year:
600 million rubles ($6.8 million) in 2020,
810 million rubles ($9.2 million) in 2021,
855 million rubles ($9.7 million) in 2022.
As a company shareholder, Vorontsova earned 232 million rubles ($2.6 million) in dividends in 2020 (more recent data is not yet available). Vorontsova also earns a salary of 700,000 rubles ($7,980) from Nomeco per month. The investigation reports:
If the dividends [in 2021 and 2022] are paid in the same way as in 2020, then our businesswoman earned a total of 910 million ($10.3 million) in dividends and a salary of 33 million rubles ($376,000). 944 million rubles ($10.7 million)!
The investigation’s authors say that Nomeco received all its money from the Sogaz clinic. In 2021 and 2022, the clinic transferred 1.5 billion rubles ($17 million) to Nomeco for certain “services related to information modeling for project implementation.”
In 2021, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty found that the following individuals were treated at the Sogaz clinic:
Yury Kovalchuk, a close associate of Putin and co-owner of Sogaz insurance group,
Sergey Fursenko, vice president of Gazprombank,
Ilya Klebanov, Putin’s former presidential plenipotentiary to Russia’s Northwestern Federal District,
Valentina Matvienko, speaker of Russia’s Federation Council.
After the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the clinics also treated Wagner Group mercenaries injured on the battlefield. In August 2022, the clinics were bought out by top managers at Nomeco.