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I'm serious: obviously i was minimizing just not to digress too much, but each country share its own cultural similarities with Russia. (and keep in mind that Russia is a huge country with many recognized ethnic groups, so not just one culture, one heritage)
All slavic countries shares many things, i was actually quite impressed how croatians understand russian well without knowing the language, in some case it's even a closer heritage than what Latin countries have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_languages
Even romanian, although it is a Latin language has a slavic influence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_influence_on_Romanian
The other big group are the Uralic Languages spoken in countries like Hungary, Finland and yet again Russia thanks to udmurt (Alina Zagitova should speak it), komi spoken in few repubblics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_languages
Then Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan belongs to the Turkic culture, and Turkic languages are also spoken in Russia (Tatars)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_peoples#Language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_languages
From a political perspective all ex communists or still communists from that area share similarities with Russia.
Then we have similarities due to migrations: for instance there are up to 1.5 mln russian speaking Israelis from various ethnic groups. (Daniel Samohin)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language_in_Israel
Tukhtamysheva is udmurt, not Zagitova. And Romania has nothing to do with the Slavs..you are wrong.. And we Hungarians came from Asia but we have nothing to do with the Slavs, too. WE don't understand very different language

I guess it's even good for her that nobody sees her as a favorite. She won't feel the pressure, and can easy and calm preparing for the GP stages.
All he did was walk by me and I almost fainted. Even if the younger students don't really understand who he is, he is already their teacher, friend, and mentor. Fortunately, they will have these clips of their younger days to look back on when they get older. If they should reach their dream and win an OGM, I'm sure these clips will be on every talk show appearance they make. They'll be a wonderful memory for these skaters to look back on. 