17 Ladies have qualified to Nationals:
via GP events: Medvedeva, Radionova, Sotskova, Pogorilaya, Zagitova, Tuktamysheva, Tsurskaya, Leonova, Mikhailova
via JGPF: Trusova, Kostornaya, Samodurova, Tarakanova, Panenkova
via Russian Cup events: Gulyakova, Gubanova and Konstantinova
Sakhanovich VS Fedichkina for the last, 18th, spot
Two. Bobrova/Soloviev were 5th at Worlds, Stepanova/Bukin were 10th, so, no three spots for Russians again.
Competition days are December, 21-23. Nationals will be in St Petersburg this year
You know, right on Christmas, when I was telling you `get your passport and let's go'?
No. Kovtun won the 2014 Nationals and Pluschenko went to the Olympics; Pogorilaya was taken off the WTT last year, Menshov was always out of the major competitions no matter where he placed and then there are all the junior skaters who participate the senior nationals and can't attend the competitions (Sotnikova was a national champion at the age of 12, Zagitova beat Pogorilaya last year).
The competition is in St. Petersburg
They will show it live. There is an advertising videoclip on their site. https://matchtv.ru/figure-skating/m...figurnomu_kataniju___s_22_dekabra_na_Match_TV. The video is geoblocked.
To be honest, the weather in December here is even worse than in Moscow...The competition is in St. Petersburg
And Russian Nationals of course 
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I loved watching the interaction between him and Samodurova during the JGP events. He's always been somewhat formal with Tuk, but I think he loves dealing with the youngsters.
New interview with Mishin, not a very informative one, but a part of it made me
http://cska.ru/news/11707
- The interests of young people've changed: in the past boys and girls used to listen to rock and jazz, now they are listening to rap. Is it important to you, to know what your students are thinking about? What kind of music do they listen to, what books do they read?
- I do not have such a question, because we are moving in one direction. I am in the context of rap - Gnoiny, Oxxxymiron (Russian rapers
- Do you inculcate your tastes to your students?
- No. I accept my students the way they are, with their love for rap (or other things). I do not think that the old is better than the new one. You know, once they forbade tango, and now girls shake their butts, and it's called "twerk". I'm not inclined to prohibitions. Life itself will determine what is good and what is bad.
This smells like a really bad situation for Anna.
Well, what else can she say? Maybe “I was supposed to be the professional but somehow I slipped back to my teenage years for those five minutes after Anna finished skating”?
Wow, she called this "the usual analysis of errors!" I don't see any analysis except calling her student lazy (only practice run-through of her FS once a week), skating dead with wooden legs and no speed, and would leave her if she skates like this again, when Anna had been in deep pain. Well, even if it's normal for them, it obviously has not been working with Anna's history of meltdowns. Best wishes and luck to Anna in finding her health and happiness back.
17 Ladies have qualified to Nationals:
via GP events: Medvedeva, Radionova, Sotskova, Pogorilaya, Zagitova, Tuktamysheva, Tsurskaya, Leonova, Mikhailova
via JGPF: Trusova, Kostornaya, Samodurova, Tarakanova, Panenkova
via Russian Cup events: Gulyakova, Gubanova and Konstantinova
Sakhanovich VS Fedichkina for the last, 18th, spot
Good question....Will be more competitions for them?
LOVING your avatar. Is it from the SP in Dortmund or Birmingham?I absolutely LOVE that Mishin knows about twerking.
Me too. Watched that particular SP live, aged 10
I believe it is Birmingham Worlds.
Loves me The Markova
The voids!
Me too. Watched that particular SP live, aged 10
