Recent content by Elka

Channel for the JGP was not geoblocked. So this means we have to have VPN for the JGP too.

Lopareva/Brissaud are not in Espoo, USA and Angers.

Thank you for this! I found it. Have been watching 4 seasons already. I am in a bubble of ideological Russians who do not want war.

It is shown on TV. Don't know if you need a VPN. 19.00 local time today. ETA: and can be watched a year. You do not need a VPN.

@Sylvia, Emmi Peltonen has not left the national team.

Mishina: I would like to say thank you for the development of our sport More correct would be to say thank you for the sport being banned for (I hope many) years.

Sweden should get it. Instead of profit to finance their skating programs for years as planned, they got big losses and I doubt that ISU compensated all of it.

It would have been a great leap of elastic logic to call Tatyana Malinina an ice dancer.

From the Wall Street Journal: "And spectators waved Ukrainian flags and signs saying “We Stand With You”.

I think it will take some time before he can compete internationally again. Every time I see this heading I read it Khodorkovsky's ...

Tarasova already started: "Great entry list, amazing. The best of the best will perform. I think it will be a very interesting tournament. With such a line-up, it can compete with the World Championships in regards to the interest of the audience." she said about the Channel 1 trophy.

Gloating? No, just predicting. I have been working with SU, then Russia and Ukraine, totally for 39,5 years. A lot of predicting, and then some more, what they will do next. I am more often right than I would like to be.

They will be overscored even more than usually, make a lot of "world records", be declared "real world champions" and get fake WC medals etc.

E.g. those people taking the train from StPetersburg to Finland were mostly going back abroad where they lived. Or had relatives and a place to go to. I would not think it to be possible for Poland to take any Russian refugees.

From a Finnish newspaper which has been interviewing passengers (who were willing to talk only on the Finnish side of the boarder) yesterday in the train from St.Petersburg: "Train from St.Petersburg (Allegro) has become one of the few routes from Russia to Western Europe. On Monday morning...