Smirnov

Smirnov is huge, has a smooth, fluid stride, and is a great puckhandler with a huge upside - the most gifted player in the draft if he pans out.

Red Line Report by Kyle Woodlief 2000

In The Bear, John Baltz plays bill collector Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov, who has a difficult time getting a young widow, Elena Ivanouvna Popova, to pay what her late husband owes him.

Michael Russnow: Chekhov Alive and Well in Hollywood: Two One-Acts at the Tres Stage Theatre Michael Russnow 2011

This land with roughly 500,000 inhabitants that runs along Moldova's border with Ukraine "is the Russian empire's frontier," Mr. Smirnov told reporters on the eve of Independence Day celebrations here last year.

In This Tiny Land, Some Wish They Were Back in the U.S.S.R. Gordon Fairclough 2011

Mr. Smirnov's rivals in Transnistria are also focused on trying to modernize the territory.

In This Tiny Land, Some Wish They Were Back in the U.S.S.R. Gordon Fairclough 2011

Along with a detachment of peacekeepers, they also serve to prop up Mr. Smirnov's government, and give Moscow a say in Moldova's future.

In This Tiny Land, Some Wish They Were Back in the U.S.S.R. Gordon Fairclough 2011

In The Bear, John Baltz plays bill collector Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov, who has a difficult time getting a young widow, Elena Ivanouvna Popova, to pay what her late husband owes him.

Michael Russnow: Chekhov Alive and Well in Hollywood: Two One-Acts at the Tres Stage Theatre Michael Russnow 2011

In the mid-1990s, Smirnov, Putin, and some friends set up a cooperative to build dachas for its members beside a lake near St. Petersburg.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

In The Bear, John Baltz plays bill collector Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov, who has a difficult time getting a young widow, Elena Ivanouvna Popova, to pay what her late husband owes him.

Michael Russnow: Chekhov Alive and Well in Hollywood: Two One-Acts at the Tres Stage Theatre Michael Russnow 2011

On a trip to Frankfurt in the early 1990s, Putin met a Russian businessman, Vladimir Smirnov, who was setting up a joint venture with German investors to develop real estate in St. Petersburg.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Tiny Transnistria has its own currency, the ruble; its own legislature, the Supreme Soviet; an army and its own Lenin look-alike president, Igor Smirnov, a 69-year-old one-time Communist Party apparatchik who has ruled for two decades.

In This Tiny Land, Some Wish They Were Back in the U.S.S.R. Gordon Fairclough 2011