Nationalists say that they don’t want to renounce neither Donbass nor Crimea. Berezhnaya said she was scared only "a little bit, at the beginning," when she returned to the ice. . The Director of Institute of Legal Policy and Social Protection Elena Berezhnaya described to the correspondent of the Federal News Agency (FAN) in Kiev the situation with nationalism in the country, the information policy of local media, and the possibility of the reunification of Ukraine. "We are not so clear with that concerning prize money and the financial situation. "I know they will do it sometime, I just didn't know it could be this year.". Of course, the answer is that it would be treated as an act of terrorism – the terrorists would be found and punished seriously. ", "So," said Moskvina, "we spoke about her health.".

Elena was already a world-class pairs skater by the age of 15, skating for Latvia with Oleg Shliakhov. They want to solve the problem with force. It was already broken and it's very easy to break again a thing that has been broken once, so be careful.". I was born here, grew up here, all my family up to the eleventh generation lived here. As a reminder, Elena Berezhnaya is engaged in vigorous human rights activity in Ukraine, despite threats, and attacks of neo-Nazis, she speaks in courts, defending individuals and organizations from xenophobes. They should’ve said to Crimea: here is for you not only electricity, but also water, it was necessary to give everything as best as possible. "I was sure I would be able to skate," she said. Still, many of her friends and associates in skating are troubled. It is the same for Crimea, when the nationalists cut off the electricity there, blew up the power lines – these explosions are pure acts of terrorism.”. . He began competing with Berezhnaya in 1996 after helping her recover from an accident with her previous partner. CAPTION: Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze skate to third place in the pairs short program at world championships. During one of the worst training an accident happened: partner sliced his blade into Elena’s skull. Elizabeth Punsalan and Jerod Swallow of the United States are sixth. The FAN already wrote how in the building of the District administrative court of Kiev a hearing on the claim of two human rights organizations took place: After recording this interview it became known that in Croatia Elena Berezhnaya’s daughter –, Ukrainian Pensioners About the "Fruits" of Post-Maidan Ukraine: "Bury Us Alive, We Have No Life", Lavrov Offered Merkel a Choice Between Russia & Navalny, How the Main “Fighter Against Corruption” in Russia Stole 372,775,000 Rubles From the Population, Nord Stream 2: Germany Finally Made Up Its Mind, What Will Happen To a US Navy Aircraft Carrier When Hit by a Hypersonic “Kinzhal” Missile: Expert Modeling, Soros Foundation in Armenia – Independent Study of the Country’s System of External Governance, Russia’s Development of a Railway Route Bypassing the Baltic States Was More Effective Than Expected, Historian Evgeny Spitsyn: “Stalin Was the First To Start the Battle Against Globalism”, Hasty EU Sanctions Play Into Russia’s Hands, Forcing Europeans To Engage in Mutually Respectful Dialogue With Russia Has Begun. I think not. It is such different concepts that lead further to an escalation of violence in our society. We keep your data private and share your data only with third parties that make this service possible. By then, it was too late; her qualifying performance Monday was dismal. Moskvina began teaching them slowly, cautiously. Two of the nine judges put them in first place, but overall, they are behind Germany's Mandy Wotzel and Ingo Steuer and fellow Russians Marina Eltsova and Andrei Bushkov. “Yes, nationalists all the time say to me: ‘suitcase, train station, Russia’. Perhaps someday the story of a couple Elena Berezhnaya – Anton Sikharulidze in figure skating will be taken as a plot for a Hollywood movie. . People who were born in Crimea where there relatives lived, their parents who are there for many generations, and so on.

The Publication Federal News Agency (FNA) sends deep condolences to Elena Berezhnaya. She doesn't remember the blade leaving a two-inch gash through her hairline, or penetrating her skull. "Let's not speak about her future as a skater," the doctors told Moskvina. With this material FAN starts a series of interview with representatives of the Ukrainian opposition – those who still haven’t been arrested by the Kiev authorities, aren’t intimidated, and haven’t been expelled from the country by right-wing radicals. Chen could not train for more than three months heading into these world championships because of a nagging foot injury. It is not a unified country, this is reasoning about the territory that they defined themselves, with Crimea and Donbass. Berezhnaya went to watch an international skating competition there in February 1996, the month she returned to Russia. Today, she is a mystery: injured, chagrined and unable to land all but the easiest of the triple jumps. What value do you put in this concept? "I am rather emotional, but I won't cry," she said. Berezhnaya went on to make a full recovery after life-threatening injuries, but it marked the end of Shliakhov and Berezhnaya's skating partnership. Because their appeals – that it is necessary to blockade Donbass, to not deliver anything there, their affirmations that subhumans live there, and all the rest means that they want to cut it off.”. ", "Now," Berezhnaya said, "I don't have any problems with my health. After recording this interview it became known that in Croatia Elena Berezhnaya’s daughter – Irina Grigoryevna Berezhnaya – died in a road accident.

Because it isn’t pleasant for someone? There, they came in second. . "She's been to Europeans and the Olympics. After less than a year together, they were European ... Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Krai, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia], Joannie Rochette to skate tribute to her mother on ABC's 'Thin Ice', Salt Lake City 2002: XIX Olympic Winter Games, The 2002 Olympic Games Figure Skating Competition/Exhibition, 1998 Olympic Winter Olympics Figure Skating Competition Highlights. Irina was a Ukrainian political and public figure, a Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of VI and VII convocations (2007 — 2014), a member of the committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine concerning justice, and a member of groups on inter-parliamentary communications with some countries. "Her face is not as it was," said her New York-based manager, Yuki Saegusa. By March, she was standing on the ice with Sikharulidze; in May, they began to skate together.