However, Evgeni Malkin, the Penguins ' 2004 NHL Entry Draft selection with their 2nd overall pick, could not come to Pittsburgh immediately due to a dispute with his Russian league.

It is the highest-level ice hockey league in Sweden and, based on average player salaries in 2006, is ranked as the fourth highest paying professional ice hockey league in the world ( behind the National Hockey League, Russian Superleague ( now the KHL ), and the Czech Extraliga ).

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* In the Russian top league, Russian Premier League, the average salary was about 219 million Russian rubles (£ 4. 5 million ) for the 2010-2011 Russian Premier League season, up from € 1 million in the 2009-2010 Russian Premier League season.

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During the NHL lock-out of the 2004 – 05 season, he returned to the Russian league and played 36 games split between Ak Bars Kazan and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl.

In early August 2007, Kralj and Russian side Rostov agreed to a contract that ties the goalkeeper to the club until the end of the Russian league season in December 2007.

This polarisation has occurred even within the Premier League, with it becoming dominated by Manchester United, Arsenal ( winning two doubles in 1997 – 98 and 2001 – 02, then in 2003 – 04 they won the league without losing a single league game the entire season ), and Chelsea ( who were bought by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich in 2003 ) and who then won back-to-back titles in 2004 – 05 and 2005 – 06.

Alexander Mogilny was the first Russian player to defect from the Soviet Union in May 1989, first non-North American to lead the league in goals scored ( along with Teemu Selänne from Finland ), first Russian to be named to the NHL All-Star Team, first Russian to be named captain of an NHL team, and is ( as of the end of the 2008 – 09 season ) the second all-time Russian scorer in the NHL.

When the Russian Superleague became the Kontinental Hockey League, the collective bargaining agreement between the KHL and its players introduced a draft, starting from the very first season of the league.

As of 7 December 2010, he is the 2nd all-time top scorer in the Russian Premier League ( 119 goals ), and the 6th player by league appearances ( 336 ).

With the army men Kirichenko managed to become the league top scorer in 2002 ( along with his teammate Rolan Gusev ), won the Russian Premier League twice, and got the Russian Cup.

* Russian Professional Basketball League, the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in Russia

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This favorable image of America in the minds of Russian men and women is still there despite years of energetic anti-American propaganda ''

His visit to Warsaw, Poland, after the Russian journey in the summer of 1959 was expected to win the Polish vote which, in several cities, is substantial.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

Pauling's estimate of 200 megatons yield from the present series of Russian tests will probably turn out to be too high, but a total of 100 megatons is a distinct possibility.

With detectors sensitive to three mass intervals and based on a few counts, the second and third Russian space probes indicate that the flux of the smallest particles detected is less than that of larger ones.

The Russian experimenters claim that only a small fraction of the impulse from the sensors is caused by the incident momentum with the remainder being momentum of ejected material from the sensor.

There is a difference in the experimental arrangement, in that the U.S. microphones are attached directly to the vehicle skin while the Russian instruments are isolated from the skin.

A significant reduction in the voume of store information is thus realized, especially for a highly inflected language such as Russian.

Speaking with `` great earnestness '', he said: `` For the Russian people, the question of Poland is not only a question of honor but also a question of security.

the conflict is not Boris versus Grigori or Shuiski or even the ghost of the murdered child, but Boris versus the Russian people.

The Soviet Embassy is popularly regarded as Russian espionage headquarters.

`` This is Russian money '', said Mervin Griffith-Jones for the attorney general's office.

Oh-the-pain-of-it, that convention of Russian ballet whereby the girls convey the idea that they are all the daughters of impoverished Grand Dukes driven to the stage out of filial piety, is totally absent from the Kirov.

It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

Since Russian was being spoken instead of Spanish, there is no violation of artistry or logic here.

He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and several foreign academies and societies, including the Danish Academy of Sciences, Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, and US National Academy of Sciences.

The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".

) The Russian abacus is often used vertically, with wires from left to right in the manner of a book.

Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (; born 7 June 1981 ) is a Russian retired professional tennis player.

A variation of a White Russian made with skim milk is known as an Anna Kournikova.

A notable exception is the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose symphonies use the theme of angst in post-World War II compositions depicting Russian strife during the war.

The number of speakers grew rapidly over the next few decades, at first primarily in the Russian Empire and Central Europe, then in other parts of Europe, the Americas, China, and Japan.

The middle and lower parts of the Bukhtarma valley have been colonized since the 18th century by runaway Russian peasants, serfs and religious schismatics ( Raskolniks ), who created a free republic there on Chinese territory ; and after this part of the valley was annexed to Russia in 1869, it was rapidly colonized.

In 1704, he enrolled with the rapidly expanding Russian navy of Peter the Great.

Due to its central position amid Russian lands, the city developed rapidly.

However, the advancing columns rapidly lost their cohesion ; shortly after clearing Borodino, they faced fresh Russian assault columns and retreated back to the village.

As a result Russian forces were rapidly encircled by the French, and Lieutenant-Generals Hermann and Zherebtsov were made prisoners, while their troops were forced back through Bergen to Schoorl, which they also had to abandon.

The infantry division of Dupont advanced rapidly from Posthenen, the cavalry divisions drove back the Russian squadrons into the now congested masses of infantry on the river bank, and finally the artillery general Sénarmont advanced a mass of guns to case-shot range.

The population of the Russian Far East has been rapidly declining since the dissolution of the Soviet Union ( even more so than for Russia in general ), dropping by 14 % in the last fifteen years.

The city grew rapidly in the early 20th century as a result of arms production during the 1905 Russo-Japanese War and World War I. Tula's factories also manufactured weapons for the Red Army during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1921.

Most historians ascribe the retreat to some combination of the following factors: the highly defensible French position together with the rapidly growing numbers of reinforcements and citizen volunteers with their discouraging and thoroughly unexpected élan persuaded the cautious Brunswick to spare himself a dangerous loss of manpower, particularly when the Russian invasion of Poland had already raised concerns for Prussia's defensibility in the east.

He rose rapidly through the ranks in the service of the Khanate of Kokand ; by the year 1847 he was commander of the fort at Ak-Mechet until a few months before its fall to the Russian army under the command of General Vasily Alekseevich Perovsky in 1853.

In August 1914, at the start of the First World War, Russian forces defeated Austro-Hungarian forces in the opening engagements and advanced rapidly into Galicia.

Ashkenazi populations grew rapidly from the 16th to the 19th centuries, with the largest diaspora populations in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian Empire.

The Russian Karelians, living in the Republic of Karelia, are nowadays rapidly being absorbed into the Russian population.

Elsewhere, Potemkin's scheme to develop a Russian presence in the rapidly disintegrating state of Persia failed.

In May 2007, Sotheby's opened an office in Moscow in response to rapidly growing interest among Russian buyers in the international art market and held sales in Qatar in 2009.

However, the Russian commander had plenty experience fighting the Turks: he knew that the Turks were only strong at the initial cavalry offensive and then its strength would rapidly decline after this cavalry assault was repelled ; so the Russians had a great advantage when fighting in open battle.

Romanization is also essential for the input of Russian text into computers by users who either do not have a keyboard or word processor set up for input of Cyrillic, or else they are not capable of typing rapidly on the distinct Cyrillic keyboard.

It is also colloquially known as the " good old Swedish times " () by Estonians, but this expression was not used before the following Russian rule, in the beginning of which the situation of Estonian peasantry declined rapidly ( to gain support of German nobility, Russia gave them more power over peasantry ).

This trend grew exponentially after Ermac ’ s death, as his legend spread through the domain rapidly and, with it, the news of a land rich and furs and vulnerable to Russian influence.

One brave group of Royal Welch Fusiliers had held their ground and were firing into the Russians until confronted by a mass of Russian soldiers, forcing them to retreat rapidly, and in the process, smashed straight into the formation of the advancing Scots Fusiliers Guards, causing immense chaos.

However, by this stage in the Russian Civil War, such measures were too late, and the White movement was rapidly losing support both domestically and overseas.

While virtually an unknown when first appointed, observers of Russian politics argued that Putin rapidly gained popular support due to a hard-line law and order image and the backing of powerful state-owned and state-allied media and economic interests.

Russian service is carried out rapidly and warmly ; first, oysters are served ; after the soup, hors d ' oeuvres ; then the large joint of meat ; then the entrées of fish, fowl, game, meat, and the entremets of vegetables ; then the roast meat with salad.