Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When she first arrived in the U.S., Baiul stuck close to her coach and surrogate mother Galina Zmievskaya and to Ukrainian Olympic champion Viktor Petrenko, who has always acted as a kind of older brother to Baiul. But they have been drifting apart. "She had kind of stepped away from the real hard work on the ice," Petrenko told TIME. "She's just enjoying her life." That included adding a new layer of friends, like Ari Zakarian, 30, the Russian-trained skater who was a passenger in her car the night of the accident. In the days after the crash...
BLOOMFIELD, Conn: Hailed in 1993 as an ethereal "ice princess" by TIME's Susanna Schrobsdorff, Oksana Baiul is attempting to set her crown straight after skidding her green Mercedes off the highway and into some Connecticut shrubbery Sunday morning. An unknown Ukrainian orphan who first emerged as an international sports celebrity after cinching an Olympic gold in 1994 at the age of 16, Oksana had slipped to the sidelines of world competition, plagued by back and knee injuries, weight gain and the distractions of stardom. On Tuesday, police charged Baiul, 19, who now lives in Connecticut, with drinking and reckless...
...wild ride inside an 8-ft. "German wheel" that looks like a huge skeletal snare drum, but Chris Lashua does somersaults and daredevil revolutions within the wheel as he steers it almost into the laps of the first-row spectators. Men are not supposed to be springboards, yet the Ukrainian and Russian acrobats in the "banquine" perform high-dive triple twists from the top of a four-man pyramid. Humans aren't built for the gorgeous torture to which Yves Decoste and Marie-Laure Mesnage submit themselves in their "hand-to-hand" body sculpture. Caked with white makeup and executing...
Podkopaev's had been a truly inspiring story: the aspiring economist was born and raised in a small Ukrainian village, in a house without electricity, and had been hoping to use academics to save his family...
Podkopaev's had been a truly inspring story: the aspiring economist was born and raised in a small Ukrainian village, in a house without electricity, and had been hoping to use academics to save his family...