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FIRST RUSSIAN TENNIS TOURNAMENT: 5.10.2009
SBS Studio and phone discussion with RERC tennis tournament organiser IRINA VASSILENKO and the winners of the 19th September Saturday of Sport.
Lively discussion, impressions and new ideas.
Presented by Sima Tsyskin
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PUSHBIKE RIDER AND CONTRUCTOR SERGEI ZIMIN: 15.4.2009
Sergei came back to Australia to make another journey and ones more to trial his home build special bike contructed especially for long and difficult distances. He covered almost 3 thousand kilometres from Melbourne to Alice Springs.
Presented by Sima Tsyskin
On air on Saturday 4 april.

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Exclusive interview with aviation legend Nicolay Timofeev: 17.3.2009
SBS Radio correspondent Oliver Heuthe secured an exclusive interview with aviation legend Nicolay Timofeev at the Avalon International Air show. The triple 'world unlimited aerobatic champion'. and one of the best pilots around was one of the highlights of the show. He started his career in the USSR (then Leningrad), but now lives in the USA. Nicolay speaks about his career, the future of aviation, and Yuri Gagarin, who turned out to be one of his role models.
Questions voiced by Alex Meglet.
Produced by Sima Tsyskin.
On air on Sunday 15 March
Photo: Szilard Torok
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TATIANA GRIGORIEVA RECEIVES QUEENSLAND AWARD: 18.2.2009
Communities and Multicultural Affairs Minister Lindy Nelson-Carr has congratulated 18 exceptional Queenslanders who have won 2008 Queensland Multicultural Awards. Multicultural Achiever (Sports) award was presented to Tatiana Grigorieva arguably the best known Russian in Australia.
Tatiana retired from the sport in 2007 and formed her own foundation �Gift for Dreams�, which aims to inspire disadvantaged young Australians through sporting and recreational programs.
Presented by Sima Tsyskin
On air on Saturday 29 November
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HOMELESS WORLD CUP 2008: 18.2.2009
The Homeless World Cup is an annual, international football tournament, uniting teams of people who are homeless and excluded to take a once in a lifetime opportunity to represent their country and change their lives forever. Melbourne is the host city for the this year tournament from 1-7 December 2008 and has erected three stadiums at Federation Square and Birrarung Marr.
On the first day of tournament we meet the Russian team coach and the editor of the street magazine "The way home" from St.Petersburg Arkady Tyurin and players from the Lithuanian and Ukrainian teams.
Presented by Sima Tsyskin
On air on Tuesday 2 December
Photo by Damir Posavac.
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LATEST FROM THE CHESS WORLD: 18.2.2009
Australia chess team captain LEON SANDLER talks about the Peking Mind Sport Olympiad and the World Chess Olympiad in Dresden.
Presented by Sima Tsyskin
On air on Saturday 29 November


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Car Racing Russian Team: 18.2.2009

Car races could be a profession or hobby for some, but surely enough, people who do the sport differ from others. The speed and feeling of competition is the cocktail which excite people stronger than any drug. And Russian Australians are not the exception.
Irina Kozyrevich reports.
Presented by Leon Tretyak
On Air 19 August 2008.

Photo: 2008 Narooma Rally - SS5
newspaper photo
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EURO 2008 - THE RUSSIAN LEGEND: 18.2.2009
Viktor Ponedelnik is a former Soviet football player, regarded as one of the best strikers in Soviet football history. He first started playing for a local team, Rostselmash, in 1956. In 1958 he switched to SKA Rostov-on-Don and was invited to join the Soviet national team. In the 1960 European Championship, the only major Championship ever won by the Soviet Union, Ponedelnik headed home the winning goal in extra time in the final game against Yugoslavia.
In later years, Ponedelnik worked as a coach, a sports journalist, an editor of a sports publication, and an advisor to the President of the Russian Federation. He has received numerous awards for his contribution to Soviet and Russian sport. SBS Euro 2008 correspondent Andrej Bucko talked to the the legendary sportsman at the opening of Russian House in Saltsburg and asked him how a boy from a remote town has become a sport star?
On air on Saturday 14 June
Photo: Andrej Bucko and Viktor Ponedelnik



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MEL - 2006 Around the World on a motobike.: 21.10.2006
Vladimir Yarets, 64, a native of Minsk (Belarus), is the first deaf person to have found determination and courage and set into a round-the-world trip on a motorbike. Currently he has travelled through more than 40 countries and covered the total distance exceeding 100,000 miles and is travelling Australia as we speak.
His son Vladimir talks about his dad with great pride.
Presented by Sima Tsyskin
On air: Saturday, 21 October.
Photo: courtesy of site
www.yarets.com


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MEL 2006 - Interview with Vicky and Alex Parnov : 13.3.2006
Tina Vassiliev presents a talk with Perth-based 15 year-old pole vaulter Vicky Parnov who is the youngest in the Australia’s largest ever Athletics team at the Commonwealth Games and her father, renowned pole vault coach Alex Parnov
On air: Saturday, 11 March
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