barbarafan
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Being around for many yrs. makes her well known and for the whole family to move to Canada would take lots of paperwork and waiting time to make it happen & to be able to enter the country. Intent etc. would be looked into. From what I read she will only compete internationally for Canada and Skate Canada has accepted her & sent papers to Russia....Russia will try to give them an answer in December. By the ban as she has not yet been released she is allowed to participate only in domestic competitions which are not counting for future international competitions. Therefore it will be a quite a while before she could skate for Canada internationally should Russia decide to release her...Good luck with that.....I really do not think the ISU should allow them to refuse the change. It should be one yr. after last competing for Russia with or without Russia agreeing.If I understand correctly, Shiryaeva moved to Vancouver from Russia, is not it so? Not being Canadian I just guess that there, in Vancouver, are not many options coaching wise (?) Perhaps parents choose what is available and the best for them in given circumstances. Nothing is static, though. everything is dynamic and things could change after a year or so.