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Yow, that's long and dangerous. Who knew ice dancers were so adventurous?Kazakova & Reviya appear to be DRIVING to Georgia. I do hope they are able to remain safe and get there soon. Lonnnnng but beautiful trip, even if they flew to somewhere like Sochi first.
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that the USSR immigrants in the '90s were better and smarter than native Israelis, I will not report that comment to my husband who likes her.) But somewhere Andrey also posted that despite the high educational attainments of FSU immigrants in Israel, they have few political or business leaders, they are not represented at the top of the army and so on. It usually takes two generations for people to integrate enough to be leaders in their new society. 
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At last report, there were no functioning ice rinks in Azerbaijan.Vladimir Litvintsev is in Azerbaijan
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That's interesting because I thought there were requirements to be an ISU federation and that included having ice to train on. Is this not true?At last report, there were no functioning ice rinks in Azerbaijan.
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Azerbaijan has yet to develop figure skating, but things could be different
I wonder where he will go to train for Worlds. Ditto for Ryabova.
It is true, but for one reason or another, the ISU isn't doing anything about it. It's possible that they don't have the facts, but I would not be surprised if there were another reason.
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If memory serves, Ell and Nikki are vastly more Azerbaijani than basically every skater to ever represent Azerbaijan. So there's that, at leastAzerbaijan buys themselves everything and into everything. Art, pop artists, Eurovision Song contests, sports, politicians,...I'm sure they can also present proof of at least 10 imaginary ice rinks for an ISU membership in an envelope with a couple of millions or something
it is a requirement at the point of entering the ISU. They had a rink but it is now not used anymore.
I don't know for Litvintsev but I think Ryabova (who is Geoffrey Brissaud' GF) is scheduled to fly to France asap.
It is starting to look a bit fuzzy there. Do you know if N&N have ret'd to Poland or gone somewhere else?
In Romania last time I was in contact
I haven't heard anything formal about it being banned, but per their instagrams Harley is back in Sydney and Hektor and Anastasia are currently training for Junior Worlds in Tallinn, so they at least seem to be avoiding it in practice now.
Do they have a place to skate there?( if you know)
I would think another concern would be just expenses. Based on some of the banking and finance restrictions I’ve seen transferring money and converting money might be a real challenge
That depends. Quite a few of the foreign skaters are just Russian skaters skating for a different country, so there would be no need to transfer or convert money. As far as I know, Safina/Berulava remained in Perm.
Yes I was thinking more about skaters who might have gone over there to train although honestly I don’t follow where people train
She was in Courchevel only while the French team was rehearsing for their tour. She is in Lyon.
