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    Russian figure skating news & updates in 2022

    It's not a matter of racial classification in Russian. "Черный" (literally 'black") is sometimes used by some people in a derogatory way - extremely rude, vulgar, uneducated, you name it - to refer mostly to a person of Azeri or Armenian origin, and also to some ethnicities from the Russian...
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    ISU Statement on Russia's war against Ukraine - Participation in international competitions of Skaters and Officials from Russia and Belarus

    Married for more than 13 years. Their daughter is three and a half now. https://www.vokrug.tv/pic/news/7/2/2/d/722dc41d68d12a6b748258af01f69156.jpg That's around the time his wife was diagnosed(
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    ISU Statement on Russia's war against Ukraine - Participation in international competitions of Skaters and Officials from Russia and Belarus

    Being otherwise engaged wouldn't be a valid excuse). One of the participants actually had to skip the skiing race (over 600 miles away from Moscow) he was initially supposed to take part in on the same day... and then was very quickly sent back by plane just in time for the next race. As for...
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    ISU Statement on Russia's war against Ukraine - Participation in international competitions of Skaters and Officials from Russia and Belarus

    I don't think Pyotr can seriously consider anything of the kind. His wife has been very sick (to put it mildly) for about three years now and is hardly transportable. Basically it's thanks to the presumably lucrative contracts he has with Tatyana Navka that he's been able to keep his wife alive...
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