Poncho Dayanas

Since 2013, he has been participating in an advertising campaign for the Russian mobile operator MTS[27]. In 2014, he starred in an advertisement for the drug Miramistin. In 2015, he became the advertising face of the Eurasia restaurant chain in St. Petersburg.

Sergey Yevgenyevich Druzhko (born 3 November 1968, Uralsk, USSR) is a Russian film actor and TV presenter. From 2005 till 2008 he was a presenter of the popular TV show Inexplicable, yet a Fact. As of 2018 he is a web-based videoblogger of the "Druzhko Show", which has 2.6 million subscribers on YouTube.

He was born on 3 November 1968, in the city of Uralsk.

In 1990 he graduated from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, played major roles in the educational theater "Na Mokhovaya".

After graduation, he lived in England for more than a year.

On his return to Russia, he worked as a DJ at a radio station, as a referent to the chief of the forensic medical service on international issues, as an organizer of tours of theatrical collectives, as an organizer and manager of branded retail chains. He recorded several music CDs, performed with solo bardic programs.

In 2003 he moved to Moscow, where he graduated from VGIK with a degree in film-making. From 2005 to 2008, he was one of the authors and host of the program "Inexplicable, yet a Fact" on Russian TV channel TNT, where he received reports of clashes with various mystical anomalies, and then carried out investigations into their materials. He also collaborated with the Ren-TV channel, being the host of the program "Fantasy Stories".

In May 2016 he recorded the song "Our Crimea", and later in an interview he stated that considers Crimea a historical Russian territory. Ukrainian website Myrotvorets included him in their database for this fact.

8 years later after the closure of the program "Inexplicable, yet a Fact", Druzhko gained popularity on the Internet. In 2016, the social network VKontakte began to gain popularity a community which published short videos cut from the program, in which the actor pronounces "capacious phrases" for all occasions. In November 2016, as a demonstration of the work of the algorithm that helps to group VKontakte posts in the user's tape for similar topics, VKontakte employees created a bot that responds to users' messages using clips with Druzhko's participation.

On 23 April 2017 on YouTube was published the first issue of "Druzhko Show". The video quickly became popular - in a week it was watched by seven million people, and about a million users subscribed to the channel. In the show, the actor, who acts as the host, parodies himself, deliberately and amateurishly telling about the funny moments on the Internet, and also trying to see everywhere the plot and mysticism. In less than two months, the channel has gained more than 2.7 million subscribers, becoming one of the most popular Russian-language channels on YouTube.

Druzhko Show

Married, wife — actress Olga Chursina; Has three sons.

Vladimir Viktorovich Morozov (born 16 June 1992) is a Russian competitive swimmer and Olympic medalist. He is the former world record holder in the short course 100-metre individual medley, the current textile world record, World Cup record and Russian national record holder in the 100-metre individual medley and 100-metre freestyle (short course), and Russian record holder in the 50-metre freestyle (short course and long course). He also holds the European record for the 100-metre individual medley. Formerly he held the Russian national record in the 50-metre backstroke (long course) and the 50-metre butterfly (short course), and held the European and Russian records in the 50-metre breaststroke (short course).

Morozov was born in Russia, and emigrated to the United States as a 14-year-old. He attended Torrance High School. He began swimming at age 9.

Morozov was a student at the University of Southern California, where he studied Economics.

Career

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England, Morozov was as a member of the Russian 4x100-metre freestyle relay team, that placed third behind the relay teams from France and the United States and won the bronze medal in the event. Swimming the third leg of the relay, Morozov split a time of 47.85 seconds to help the relay finish in 3:11.41.

2012 World and European Championships

Following the Olympics, Morozov competed at the 2012 European Short Course Championships and the 2012 World Short Course Championships held at the end of 2012. At the European Championships in Chartres, France, Morozov won seven medals including individual titles in the 100-metre freestyle and 100-metre individual medley. At the World Championships in Istanbul, Morozov won gold medals in the 50-metre and 100-metre freestyle, and a silver medal in the 4x100-metre medley relay. In the 50-metre freestyle, Morozov defeated 2012 Olympic champion in the event, Florent Manaudou of France, as well as Anthony Ervin of the United States, and set the national record with a time of 20.55 seconds.

2013—2014 NCAA and Championships

In 2013, as a college junior swimming for Coach Dave Salo at University of Southern California, Morozov won the NCAA Division I Championships title in both the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard freestyle. Fresh off his success at the NCAA Championships, Morozov competed at the 2013 Russian National Championships, breaking the Russian record in the long course 50-metre backstroke with a time of 24.80 seconds. Later in the year at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain, he set a new Russian national record in the long course 50-metre freestyle with a time of 21.47 seconds and earned the silver medal in the event, finishing less than two tenths of a second behind César Cielo. The following year, at the 2014 Russian National Championships, Morozov lowered his national record in the 50-metre backstroke to a 24.52, dropping almost three tenths of a second off the his previous record and best time of 24.80 seconds.

2016 Summer Olympics

See also: Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Morozov did not qualify for the final in either of his individuals events, the 50-metre freestyle and the 100-metre freestyle, finishing 9th and 10th respectively. Morozov also competed on the Russian 4×100-metre freestyle relay, splitting a time of 47.31 for the third leg of the relay in the final and helping the relay team place fourth in 3:11.64. In the final of the 4×100-metre medley relay Morozov contributed to the Russia relay team finishing in a time of 3:31.30 to place fourth.

2016 Swimming World Cup

Starting out at the first short course 2016 FINA Swimming World Cup stop in Chartres, France, Morozov broke the world record in the 100-metre individual medley set at 50.66 by Markus Deibler of Germany in 2014 with his time of 50.60 seconds. Later on in the World Cup circuit, four days later at the stop in Berlin, Germany, Morozov broke his own world record with a time of 50.30 seconds in the 100-metre individual medley.

2017 Championships and World Cup

In April, at the 2017 Russian National Championships conducted in long course metres, Morozov broke the 50-metre freestyle national record he set in 2013 by swimming a 21.44 and lowering the record three hundredths of a second. During the 2017 FINA Swimming World Cup stop in Berlin in August, Morozov swam a 45.23 and broke the 100-metre freestyle Russian national record from eight years prior set at 45.36 by Yevgeny Lagunov. At the 2017 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark in December, Morozov set a new Russian national record in the 50-metre freestyle twice, swimming a time of 20.31 seconds and winning the gold medal in the event final after first lowering the national record to 20.45 seconds in the semifinals.

2018 National Championships

At the 2018 Russian National Championships in Moscow in April, Morozov broke his own Russian national record in the 50-metre backstroke, swimming a 24.35 for the new record and lowering his personal best time in the event by over one tenth of a second.

2018 Swimming World Cup

Morozov broke a number of short course records during the 2018 FINA Swimming World Cup, starting by setting a new world record, European record, and Russian national record in the 100-metre individual medley with a time of 50.26 seconds at the Eindhoven stop in late September. In early November at the World Cup stop in Tokyo, Morozov swam 50.26 seconds in the 100-metre individual medley again, tying his own pre-existing records. In Tokyo the following day, he set a new Russian national record in the 100-metre freestyle with a personal best time of 45.16 seconds that lowered his former national record from 2017 by seven hundredths of a second. At the World Cup stop in Singapore in mid-November, Morozov achieved the textile world record, World Cup record, and Russian record in the short course 100-metre freestyle, posting a time of 44.95 seconds, which was 0.01 seconds slower than the world record set in a full body-suit at 44.94 seconds by Amaury Leveaux of France in 2008, and becoming the second fastest swimmer in the event in history only behind Leveaux. The next day, Morozov set a new national record in the 50-metre butterfly with his time of 22.17 seconds, which was just 15 hundredths of a second ahead of Michael Andrew of the United States who placed second.

2019 Championships and World Cup

At the long course 2019 FINA Swimming World Cup series stop in Singapore, Morozov lowered the Russian record in the 50-metre freestyle by almost two tenths of a second to 21.27 seconds and tied Bruno Fratus of Brazil as the tenth fastest performer in the race to that point in time. Following the 2019 World Cup, Morozov competed at the 2019 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Glasgow, Scotland and won seven gold medals. In the 50-metre breaststroke, he won the gold medal and set new European, Russian national, and Championships records in the event with his time of 25.51 seconds.

2019—2020 International Swimming League

In 2019, Morozov was a member of the 2019 International Swimming League, in which he swam representing Team Iron. He was named Most Valuable Player in the Lewisville match and he also won the skins race twice in the first season at the matches in Lewisville and London. For the 2020 season, Morozov joined the newly established team, Tokyo Frog Kings.

2020 Summer Olympics

See also: Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics

In July and August 2021 at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, which were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Morozov competed in both the prelims and the final of the 4x100 metre freestyle relay, helping the relay qualify for the final ranked eighth with a time of 3:13.13 and place seventh in the final with a time of 3:12.20, as well as the 50 metre freestyle where he placed 16th overall in the semifinals with a time of 22.25 seconds and did not advance to the final of the event. In August, following the Olympic Games, Morozov contracted COVID-19.

On the first day of the short course 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup stop number one in Berlin, Germany, Morozov tied for sixth place in the prelims heat of the 50-metre freestyle and qualified for the final later the same day. In the final, he tied Jesse Puts of the Netherlands for the bronze medal with a time of 21.15 seconds. The next day, Morozov competed in the 50-metre breaststroke, swimming a 27.12 and placing ninth overall. Day three, the final day of competition, he placed seventh in the prelims heats of the 50-metre butterfly with a time of 23.28 seconds and qualified for the final in the evening. Morozov placed fourth in the final, finishing less than three tenths of a second behind bronze medalist in the event Chad le Clos of South Africa with a time of 22.73 seconds.

Stop number two of the World Cup series, held in Budapest, Hungary, Morozov started his competition on day one, swimming a 21.51 in the 50-metre freestyle prelims in the morning and advancing to the final in the evening. He won his first medal in the final, finishing in 21.04 seconds, and less than one tenth of a second behind Kyle Chalmers of Australia, to win the silver medal. Day two of competition, Morozov ranked third in the 100-metre freestyle prelims heats at 47.41 seconds and advanced to the final. In the final he finished second, over half a second behind Kyle Chalmers and over half a second ahead of Kristóf Milák of Hungary, in a time of 46.25 seconds and won his second silver medal of the stop. On the third and final day of competition, Morozov placed ninth and achieved alternate status for the final of the 50-metre butterfly with a time of 23.30 seconds in the prelims heats. His alternate status was called upon and he was able to compete in the final where he won his third medal of the stop, this time a bronze medal, in a time of 22.52 seconds only behind Tom Shields of the United States and Szebasztián Szabó of Hungary.

Prior to the start of competition at the third World Cup stop, which was held in Doha, Qatar for the year, Morozov was mentioned as an athlete to watch during the stop by Swimming World. Building repetition into his World Cup stop entries, Morozov chose to go with the honed entry list of events, 50-metre freestyle, 100-metre freestyle and 50-metre butterfly, he swam in Budapest for Doha. Beginning his competition, Morozov ranked third in the morning prelims heats of the 50-metre freestyle on day one, qualifying for the final as one of three swimmers under 22 seconds with his time of 21.87 seconds. Morozov won his first gold medal of the 2021 World Cup circuit in the final of the 50-metre freestyle, finishing first with a time of 20.89. In the morning prelims on day two, Morozov ranked fourth overall with a time of 47.56 in the 100-metre freestyle, just one hundredth of a second behind Kyle Chalmers heading into the final. He cruised to winning a silver medal in a time of 46.31 seconds in the final, finishing only after Kyle Chalmers. Starting the last day of competition at the Doha stop, Morozov ranked eighth in the prelims heats of the 50-metre butterfly with a time of 23.67 and qualified for the final later the same day. Finishing the day off, he placed fourth in the final of the 50-metre butterfly with a time of 22.76 seconds.

Morozov was mentioned as a competitor to watch in his freestyle races against Kyle Chalmers by FINA in advance of the start of competition at the Kazan Aquatics Palace in Kazan for the fourth and final stop of the year's World Cup circuit.[67] Participating in a FINA-hosted press conference, Morozov spoke about fitness, performance, and racing Kyle Chalmers in regards to the last stop:

First of all, my main goal is to keep fit, and my paramount goal is to try qualify for the World Championships. In August, I had COVID, and my fit was zero. Then I got recovered and started to train hard. I guess I am not in the best shape now, as for the previous leg it was 7 out of 10. So maybe in Kazan I will try to beat Chalmers.

Making good on his promise to try and beat Kyle Chalmers, Morozov ranked third overall in the prelims heats of the 50-metre freestyle with a time of 21.25 seconds that was just one tenth of a second behind Kyle Chalmers, who ranked first in the heats, and both advanced to the final later in the day. In the medal determining finals race for the event, Morozov swam his fastest time in the 50-metre freestyle for the 2021 World Cup circuit, a 20.81, and finished just thirteen hundredths of a second after Kyle Chalmers for the silver medal. Morozov kept pace in the prelims heats of the 100-metre freestyle in the morning of day two of competition, advancing to the final ranking fourth with his time of 47.07 seconds from the morning. In the final of the 100-metre freestyle, Morozov won the silver medal with a time of 46.32 seconds and finished second to Kyle Chalmers who set a new world record in the event, a feat Morozov had narrowly missed a few years earlier when he swam within one hundredth of a second of the world record. Starting off the last day of the World Cup, Morozov tied for fourth in the prelims heats of the 50-metre butterfly with a time 22.87 seconds that was six-hundredths of a second faster than Kyle Chalmers who ranked sixth. Morozov finished off the podium in the final, coming in fifth-place and thirty-five hundredths of a second behind Kyle Chalmers who won the bronze medal.

In terms of overall points scored from all 2021 World Cup stops by a male competitor, Morozov took first-place amongst Russian swimmers, third-place amongst the competitors whose country hosted at least one of the year's World Cup stops, and ninth-place for competitors from any country. In terms of total medals won, Morozov ranked tenth amongst male competitors with his total of eight medals, one of which was gold, five of which were silver, and two of which were bronze.

For the 2021 European Short Course Swimming Championships held in Kazan from 2 to 7 November, Morozov entered to compete in three events, the 50-metre freestyle, the 100-metre freestyle, and the 100-metre individual medley. The day before the start of competition, an updated entries list revealed Morozov had pulled out of racing the 100-metre individual medley at the Championships. His first race, the final of the 4x50-metre freestyle relay on day one of competition, Morozov led-off the relay with a split time of 21.22 seconds and helped the relay win the bronze medal with a time of 1:23.35. On the second day, Morozov competed in his first individual race, swimming a 21.23 in the prelims heats of the 50-metre freestyle and qualifying for the semifinals. In the semifinals of the 50-metre freestyle, Morozov lowered his time from the prelims by a quarter of a second, swimming a 20.98 and advancing to the final ranked third. In the final of the 4x50-metre medley relay the same day, Morozov split a 22.18 for the butterfly leg of the relay, helping the finals relay achieve a time of 1:30.79 and win the silver medal. The third day of competition, he swam a 20.95 in the final of the 50-metre freestyle and won a bonze medal in the event.

Day number five, 6 November, Morozov swam a 46.75 in the prelims heats of the 100-metre freestyle, ranked eighth overall, and did not advance to the semifinals as he ranked fourth amongst Russian swimmers in the prelims heats and each country was limited to two swimmers past the prelims heats. Later in the day, he split a 21.30 for the first leg of the 4x50-metre mixed freestyle relay in the final, helping the relay achieve a time of 1:29.40 and earn a silver medal. After Russia won the silver medal, the relay team who touched the wall fourth, the team from Poland, protested Russia winning a medal, so LEN decided to disqualify Morozov and the rest of the 4x50-metre mixed freestyle relay team from Russia and strip them of the medals they had already received and give the Poland relay team bronze medals for their efforts as the Russian swimmers did not swim in the order submitted to officials before the race.

On 2 December Morozov was officially announced to the Russia team roster for the 2021 World Short Course Championships to be held at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates starting on 16 December. Day one of competition, Morozov won a gold medal in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay for his contributions alongside prelims relay teammates Andrei Minakov, Aleksandr Shchegolev, and Daniil Markov when the finals relay, which did not include Morozov, finished first. The second day of competition, Morozov led-off the 4×50 metre mixed freestyle relay in the final with a 21.17, helping achieve a bronze-medal-winning time of 1:28.97. In the prelims heats of the 50 metre freestyle on day three, Morozov did not qualify for the semifinals, ranking 17th with a time of 21.54 seconds. Morozov led-off the 4×50 metre freestyle relay in the prelims heats on day four with a 21.33, helping qualify the relay for the final tied for first in rank. In the final, Morozov split a 20.61 for the second leg of the relay, which tied Alessandro Miressi of Italy for the second-fastest split in the final of the event and contributed to a silver-medal-win and a final relay time of 1:23.75. On day five, Morozov split a 20.37 for the freestyle leg of the 4×50-meter medley relay in the final, contributing to a Championships record and gold-medal-winning time of 1:30.51.

Richard Kruspe (born Zven Kruspe or Sven Kruspe; 24 June 1967) is a German musician and guitarist of the German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein, as well as the lead singer of the US-based band Emigrate.

Kruspe was born in Wittenberge (then part of East Germany). He later changed his first name to Richard. He has two older sisters and an older brother. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother remarried; Kruspe did not get along with his stepfather. The family moved to the village of Weisen when Kruspe was young. Because of his poor relationship with his stepfather, Kruspe often ran away from home in his early teens, sleeping on park benches.

In a 2014 interview with Metal Hammer, he commented on life in East Germany, stating: "The thing about East Germany is that it was great to grow up there, until you were 12. You were presented with the illusion of a very healthy society, which worked unless you asked questions – and you don't ask questions until you're 12.

At the age of 16, Kruspe and some friends visited Czechoslovakia, where he bought a guitar, originally planning to sell it at a profit, but then started playing it.

In 1985, bored with the apathetic music scene in his hometown, Kruspe moved to East Berlin and lived on Lychener Straße, where he "made music all day". For two years, he lived in an apartment with a drum kit and a guitar and made music by himself as he did not know anybody there. "It was a lonely time", according to Kruspe, but he used it to explore music.

On 10 October 1989, before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Kruspe was riding on the subway. After coming back above ground, he found himself in the middle of a political demonstration. He was hit on the head and arrested just for being there and thrown in jail for six days. Once out of jail, he decided to leave East Germany. Because of the Eastern Bloc, he entered West Germany by traveling through Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Austria. When the Berlin Wall came down, he moved back east of Berlin.

Kruspe's first band, Das Elegante Chaos, was formed in the late 1980s. The band played live with other bands such as First Arsch (in which Till Lindemann was a drummer). In 1989, when Kruspe was 22, some songs were recorded by the band; these songs were later released in 2011 on the album Lyrik by Dachboden-Records. Seeking a more independent experience, Kruspe formed Orgasm Death Gimmick, which operated between 1991 and 1993; Orgasm Death Gimmick released three demo tapes, and a promotional tape through their label, Wydoks, before disbanding.

During his early career, Kruspe also played with other bands, such as First Arsch. Finally, Rammstein was formed in 1994, when Kruspe, who lived with Oliver Riedel and Christoph Schneider at the time, was looking for a new band in which to create a new style of music.

Kruspe married South African actress Caron Bernstein on 29 October 1999. The ceremony was Jewish, and Kruspe composed the music for it. He took the name Richard Kruspe-Bernstein during their marriage. He moved from Berlin to New York in 2001 to live closer to Bernstein, but they separated in 2004, and he changed his last name back to its original form. He moved back to Berlin in 2011.

Aleksandr Vladimirovich Popov (born 16 November 1971), better known as Alexander Popov, is a former Russian swimmer. Widely considered the greatest sprint swimmer in history, Popov won gold in the 50-metre and 100 m freestyle at the 1992 Olympics and repeated the feat at the 1996 Olympics, and is the only male in Olympic games history to defend both titles. He held the world record in the 50 m for eight years, and the 100 m for six. In 2003, aged 31, he won 50 m and 100 m gold at the 2003 World Championships.

Popov began swimming at age 8 at the Children and Youth Sports School of Fakel Sports Complex in Lesnoy, at that time afraid of water. However, his father insisted on him taking swimming lessons in that sports school, and in his own words, he has "been stuck there ever since". Popov started out as a backstroker but switched to freestyle when he joined Gennadi Touretski's squad in 1990 on the initiative by the head coach of the USSRNational Team Gleb Petrov. He later moved from Russia to Australia to be with his coach.Popov won the men's 50 m and 100 m freestyle in the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, and repeated his victories in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, becoming the first man to do so since Johnny Weissmuller. He presented Touretski with his 1996 Olympic gold medal from the 100 m freestyle. "I have a title and I'm on the paper, but, you know, Gennadi hasn't gotten anything from Atlanta or from Barcelona," Popov said. "But I know how much this particular medal means for him, is worth for him."One month after the Atlanta Olympics, he was stabbed in the abdomen with a knife during a dispute with three Moscow street vendors. The knife sliced his artery, grazed one of his kidneys and damaged the pleura, the membrane that encases the lungs. He had emergency surgery and spent three months in rehabilitation.

At the 1997 European Championships in Seville, Spain, he successfully defended his 50 m and 100 m freestyle titles.In 2000, he beat the world record in the 50-metre freestyle in a time of 21.64 at Russia's Olympic Trials in Moscow. Popov, considered one of the most technically sound swimmers of all time, took just 31 strokes to set the world mark, which would last nearly eight years.Popov finished second in the 100 meter freestyle at the 2000 Olympics.In the 2003 Barcelona World Championships, Popov once again made a clean sweep of the men's 50 m and 100 m freestyle events, citing that Barcelona would always be special to him, for it was there that for him, everything first began.He announced his participation in the 2004 Athens Olympics. Moreover, he was the Flagbearer of Russia in the opening ceremony. Popov was the oldest competitor at the pool, and finished 9th in the men's 50 m and 18th in the 100 m freestyle.He announced his retirement from the sport in January 2005.

Popov was elected a full member of the International Olympic Committee in December 1999. He also represents the athletes on the IOC Sport for All Commission and was elected directly as one of seven athletes to the IOC Athletes' Commission by the athletes participating in the 1996 Olympics. He was re-elected to the Athletes Commission at the 2000 Games and is now Honorary Secretary. He was awarded the 1996 Russian Medal of Honour for contributions to sport. He was also named Russian Athlete of the Year and European Sports Press Union Athlete of the Year in 1996.In June 2003, he confirmed that he was permanently leaving Australia in early 2004 to live in Solothurn, Switzerland. He said the move followed the offer of a business proposition in Switzerland, once he had retired from swimming. He retained Touretski as a long-distance coach.

Popov earned both a bachelor's and a master's degree in sports coaching from the Russian Academy.He is a spokesman for Omega SA alongside other swimmers such as Ian Thorpe. He appeared at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics after being elected a member of the IOC, presenting flowers to volunteers. He was named to the Evaluation Commission for the 2016 Summer Olympics. In 2009 he served as chairman of the RC Lokomotiv Moscow rugby league club. Since May 2009 he has been a member of the supervisory board of Adidas.

In early 1997 he married Darya Shmeleva, a Russian Olympic swimmer he had dated since 1995. They have two sons, Vladimir (born 1997) and Anton (b. 2000), and a daughter, Mia (b. 22 December 2010). Popov is a friend of wrestler Aleksandr Karelin.