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"Crystal" will become part of SSHOR No. 2. Within the next month, the process of processing documents will go on, and this will be officially approved from September 1. This is a long-standing idea of combining schools in sports into one-in figure skating, for example, they will unite everyone except CSKA, because they are subordinate to Moskomsport.
 
Generally I prefef firefox over chrome or opera, but since this week a problem occured. Somehow there is a problem with instagram posts put in forums like this, instead of them I see a writing "firefox can't open this page and a button "open the page in a new window". There is no problem in browsing instagram itself, but for brossing this forum I use chrome now because there is no similar problem. I don't know what caused that because it appeared suddenly, I haven't changed any stettings before that and not actualization was ongoing.
OT, but I've had the same thing happening, starting roughly at the same time as you, I would say. One of the Firefox messages says it comes from the website's configuration, so maybe something was changed on GoldenSkate at that time? I haven't had time to investigate, but maybe a post here to see if we're the only ones and try to troubleshoot it would help us?
 
OT, but I've had the same thing happening, starting roughly at the same time as you, I would say. One of the Firefox messages says it comes from the website's configuration, so maybe something was changed on GoldenSkate at that time? I haven't had time to investigate, but maybe a post here to see if we're the only ones and try to troubleshoot it would help us?
Yes I think it is something on the forum. Originally it happened in other servers as well but then it turned back to normal, so I presume it has something to do with some security protocols used on some servers. I will try to post it as a feedback.
 
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OK, I've made the post here:
 
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I find the whole Oklahoma Bombing anecdote from Eteri fascinating and started looking for more information on it. The group that was stranded was pretty big and I could not find any direct mention of her. The group that was stranded was the Russian Ballet on Ice and there's video of Eteri skating with them in 1993 which was about a year before they got stranded. There is an article putting Nikolai Apter in Oklahoma as part of the group and Eteri stated that he was her pair partner. I'm going to put the links establishing those two facts first and then put the rest in chronological order.

Eteri skating in Mikhail Belousov presents Russian Ballet on Ice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ORvtyOaD1k&t=125s
CBS News with Dan Rather does report on stranded Russian skaters, interview's Mikhail Belousov https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/broadcasts/362394 (would be great if someone actually found this news clip)


https://fsrussia.ru/intervyu/905-eteri-tutberidze-pyatyj-element.html "My partner Kolya Apter"
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/454523131/ Oklahomans Aid Stranded Russian Skaters "Russian skaters Nastya Senina, Julia Kirillova and Nikolai Apter wait at a Guthrie church camp for money to come through so they can perform in the United States." (either "view source" or click on OCR to find that text. The OCR is not cleaned up so different newspaper articles and photo captions run into one another)

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1993 - Eteri skating in Mikhail Belousov presents Russian Ballet on Ice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ORvtyOaD1k&t=125s

Dec 2 1994 - "Oklahomans Aid Stranded Russian Skaters" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/454523131/
Dec 18 1994 - Russian Skating Troupe Stuck In Oklahoma -- Funds To Underwrite Tour Tangled In Web Of Red Tape https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19941218&slug=1947942

Mar 3 1994 - A stranded troop of Russian skaters' year of broken dreams in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/broadcasts/362394
Mar 24 1995 - Skaters Shown Nothing But Love https://oklahoman.com/article/2496405/skaters-shown-nothing-but-love
Mar 31 1995 - Stranded Russian Skaters to Perform in City - https://oklahoman.com/article/2497081/stranded-russian-skaters-to-perform-in-city

Apr 19 1995 - Oklahoma City Bombing
Apr 20 1995 - More bad luck plagues skaters after explosion https://bombing.newsok.com/bombing/article/1175331/?template=bombing/main

Apr 27 1995 -"Brunare" the cat is mobbed Thursday by Russian skaters Julia Kirillova, left, Olga Tiltsova and Helena Nikonova after the cat was rescued from the seventh floor of the downtown Oklahoma City YMCA. The cat was trapped in a suitcase for seven days after the bombing and was found by a volunteer clean-up crew from DOC which had gone to the 7th floor Wednesday to retrieve the Russian skaters' belongings after the Alfred Murrah Federal Building car bomb explosion last week. https://oklahoman.com/gallery/6038702/the-days-following-oklahoma-city-bombing-april-1995
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May 18 2000 - Russians return to skate https://tulsaworld.com/archive/russ...cle_dc3ad39a-2c2e-5dde-b8e1-509bd8cf8085.html
May 19 2000 - Eight members of the Russian Ballet on Ice who survived the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing are back in the state to skate again. http://oldtmt.vedomosti.ru/sitemap/free/2000/5/article/skaters-in-oklahoma/263112.html

Dec 2011 - An American Dream https://www.edmondoutlook.com/an-american-dream/ (profiles a skater who settled in Oklahoma. He wrote a letter to a newspaper expressing thanks one year after bombing here but it's hard to make out the complete text via the OCR dump: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/454129665/)


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Interviews where Eteri talks about her experience during the Oklahoma City Bombing in detail.

Mar 2015 - Eteri Tutberidze: Fifth element https://fsrussia.ru/intervyu/905-eteri-tutberidze-pyatyj-element.html
Apr 2019 - Interview with Posner https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...ew-with-v-posner-russia-1.105478/post-5570346
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I have no reason to doubt her story about her and other russian skaters close to the Oklahoma City bombing considering how detailed it is and how it matches up with published information, but I do find the story of the fireman who helps her get a job with Ice Capades to be very odd. Partly because in the interview a very weird name for the fireman is given and partly because Ice Capades was in chaos and would only exist for another 2 years. It makes more sense if "Ice Capades" is just a generic name for some touring ice show.

Eteri's name(spelled Eteri Toutberidze) is on the Survivors Wall at the OKC Bombing Memorial along with about 600 others.

You can find her name listed here: https://memorialmuseum.com/experience/their-stories/those-who-survived/

And a redditor took a photo of it: https://www.another site.com/r/Figu...res_eteris_name_on_the_survivors_wall_at_the/

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