Evgenia Medvedeva

[Scott512]

Yeah, I really don't see a downside to it. All of the North American skating fans I know are excited that she will be training here because there's a better chance that we can get to see her skate live at an event, and we're looking forward to more English tweets and interviews as she becomes more immersed in the language. This is good for Russia, because she puts a good face on her nation.

Things like her Sailor Moon exhibition draws anime fans into figure skating, and who knows how many K-Pop fans have an interest after all the attention her EXO fandom received during the Olympics, and all of these people who begin to take an interest in figure skating because of her see her as a cool Russian girl, and that only helps Russia. The more that "cool" and "Russia" are linked together in the minds of westerners, the less hostility there will be, so I really don't get this Russian national sentiment that she is some sort of traitor. She is actually quite the opposite, although I can understand being upset that your tax dollars are paying a Canadian rather than a Russian coach. Still, that seems a small matter to be bitter enough over to say nasty things to an 18-year-old on the Internet. You do you, Zhenya. You make both figure skating and Russia more appealing to the rest of the world.

Agreed.

 

[lbamda]

I liked when the guy said it's weird to read LOL in cyrillic, and she replied LOL. I mean, it was an easy one because he set it up for her, but it still made me chuckle.

Zhenya troll of 80 lvl). Her "Privetik" on twitter from rest, before information throw in media about leaving.

 

[dante]

I'm constantly annoyed by demands that anybody should tweet or blog or write in English :disapp:

There are always people complaining and requesting to switch the language, be it Russian or English.

 

[1critic]

Tweeting in English will help her reach a wider audience.

 

[50 Words for Snow]

Tweeting in English will help her reach a wider audience.

It will, and I myself only speak English (and survival-level Spanish), and yet like ejnsofi, I am annoyed by people who demand that she speak in English. I can translate her tweets in Google without difficulty, and in her long Instagram live streams right after the Olympics, she spoke partly in English. I would be fine with asking her for a summary in English before she logs off, but to just sit there typing "English please," "Would you speak English?" "Can you say that in English please?" or worse yet, simply "English!" really irritates me, and I am one of those Americans who gets upset with people for moving here and refusing to learn English, but it's the same principle, really. If you are going to live in America, you should learn to speak English, and if you are reading a Russian woman's Twitter feed, you should expect to see a lot of tweets in Russian.

Anyway, I imagine that once she moves to Canada, we will read and hear more from her in English, and she will reach a wider audience for it, but I would expect (and hope) that she will also continue to speak and write a lot in Russian too, since that is her country. I am really not bothered by it. I follow Alina on Instagram too, and she writes almost exclusively in Russian. I just translate it in Google. If I couldn't be bothered to do that much, I shouldn't follow a Russian girl, you know?

 

[StrikerIvan]

Biting is one thing but I'm constantly annoyed by demands that anybody should tweet or blog or write in English :disapp: There are other languages in the world and if somebody prefers to write in his/her mother tongue it's a private matter and nobody has right to be bitter or sarcastic about it

That's why I try hard to leave the comments in Russian, it's respect to Zhenya. I think keep asking somebody to write another languages is impolite.:noshake:

 

[50 Words for Snow]

That's why I try hard to leave the comments with Russian, it's respect to Zhenya. I think keep asking somebody to write another languages is impolite.:noshake:

I write my comments to her in English because I know she can read them, but if I were to comment on one of Alina's Instagram posts, I'd translate my comment to Russian in Google first and then copy that to the comment box, as I'm not sure that Alina's very comfortable with English.

 

[Sivush]

If someone understood that part in the Anna Karenina program after the loop and before the 2A2T2T with the hand, can you please explain what it means?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_UFmhnO7a0
Her skating coordinated with storyboard there, can be helpful

 

[r2d2]

Medvedeva and her goodfellas https://www.instagram.com/p/BjAhzhwnNEz/?taken-by=xam_trankov

 

[skatingfan200]

https://twitter.com/yurpo_37/status/998270097335701504

sweet pic - Zhenya and Yagudin

 

[StrikerIvan]

Here's all episodes of "Ice Age Kids" that has been broadcast(EP1-7):luv17:

EP1

EP2

EP3

EP4

EP5

EP6

EP7

PS: Seems Zhenya is very popular in China

EP8 is here:luv17:

 

[skatingfan200]

EP8 is here:luv17:

Definetly much better than EP1 or EP2.

 

[xeyra]

On twitter: we can auto translate comments directly on twitter. It's easy. So it shouldn't matter if she types in Russian or English, to be honest.

 

[yoloaxel]

I saw Zhenya liked this tweet today:

I want to take a moment and say that what Shawn and Khalid did yesterday was really important for all of us.
Life is so scary and crazy...
These school shooting are killing me inside and knowing the fact that I can’t help anybody is so sad...
Things must CHANGE!

I'm happy to see she's supporting of the kids who went through that terrible event in Texas

 

[KiraraChin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_UFmhnO7a0
Her skating coordinated with storyboard there, can be helpful

I hadn't seen this video before, her interpretation is simply amazing. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Tulipstar]

I saw Zhenya liked this tweet today:



I'm happy to see she's supporting of the kids who went through that terrible event in Texas

Me too. It's horrible what happened.

 

[VerityXxX]

Me too. It's horrible what happened.

At least she’s not with Averbukh anymore—he’d probably make her mime about it.

 

[OswinOswald]

At least she’s not with Averbukh anymore—he’d probably make her mime about it.

I was just watching Zhenya's FS in France in 2016 (I don't understand how I never saw it ), and I realized she performed her 9/11 program exactly a year after the Paris attacks. It feels... weird, watching the program after noticing the date

 

[tha]

This person did a evgenia's cross stitch and omg look at the detail
https://www.instagram.com/crossstitch_r_n/

 

[50 Words for Snow]

This person did a evgenia's cross stitch and omg look at the detail
https://www.instagram.com/crossstitch_r_n/

Wow, that's fantastic!