#Sofia Bogdanova

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On Tuesday evening, pro-EU protesters will rally near the presidency and the Ministerial Council in Sofia, accusing President Rumen Radev of undermining the parliamentary system and hampering efforts to form a government after a two years of repeated elections.

“The president has long shown that he does not work for the benefit of Bulgarian society and for Bulgarian interests, but for Russian ones,” said a statement by protest organisers Vera Staevska and Katerina Bogdanova.

“We won’t allow Bulgaria to become Belarus,” they added.

After opposing political forces We Continue the Change and GERB agreed on a cabinet last week, negotiations on forming an administration after Bulgaria’s most recent inconclusive election stalled, and some saw the shadow of President Radev in the logjam.

They believe it is in Radev’s interest to prolong Bulgaria’s political turmoil, which would allow him to govern the country through a series of interim cabinets, just as he has in the last two years.

On Monday, Radev handed the government-forming mandate to We Continue the Change, which agreed on an experimental 18-month cabinet with its biggest opponents, GERB.

The plan would see the parties nominating individual prime ministers to govern in rotation: the first nine months would be under the flag of We Continue the Change’s Nickolay Denkov, while the second would be under the control of GERB’s Mariya Gabriel.

However, talks stalled after We Continue the Change member Radostin Vassilev leaked a four-hour audio recording, alleging party leaders Kiril Petkov and Assen Vassilev are making arrangements for national security service reform in accordance with the EU and the US, which he said he sees as treachery.

The National Security Agency then began a treason investigation into Petkov, Vassilev and adviser Vessela Cherneva on Tuesday.

Petkov, a former prime minister, said he believed there was coordination between Vassilev and Radev, and on Monday he wrote that “the disinformation and the Kremlin’s meddling in the internal affairs of the Eastern European countries is a huge problem for Europe as a whole”.

“Attempts at destabilisation are made by activating local politicians and strengthening autocracy at the expense of democracy,” he said.

While handing over the mandate to form a government to We Continue the Change, President Radev described its attempt to muster an administration as already “compromised” and said that the party should “preserve its dignity” by rethinking its plans.

A previous wave of protests erupted in August 2022 after Radev and interim premier Galab Donev tried to reverse deals made by the Petkov coalition and reinstate gas deliveries from Russia’s Gazprom. Concerns around Bulgaria’s geopolitical future also caused protests against the ousting of the Petkov cabinet last June.

Radev initially allied with the opposition to GERB leader Boyko Borissov, only to turn against reformist parties We Continue the Change and Democratic Bulgaria after the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He also opposed their plans for healthier relations with neighbouring North Macedonia.

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This girl is amazing. 

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European Freestyle Skating Championships 2017, Junior Women 1st place, Sofia Bogdanova

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I’m literally talking about a 12 year old girl and I feel bad that I even wrote this.

(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( she is the precious savior of freestyle slalom. no hate ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

I think of her very dearly, but I didn’t find watching her as entertaining this year.

I might as well go ahead and say, I really did not like the choreography. I thought I might warm up to it, but I still feel like it’s not a fit for her.

I wish Ilya Averbukh would keep his choreo to Medvedeva and away from her.

Her technical difficulty is, of course, impressive, even though execution wasn’t at its finest. She did seem committed to the program and that was nice to see. It has a lot of things going on and she does deliver them. But I couldn’t help but wish she had a different program. She is great, but the program wasn’t helping her.

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Viktoria was doing so well before that drop :(

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European Championships Varna 2021

The nominative list is out and there are some changes in the individual competition!

ARM goes 4-3-1 with Silva Sargsyan, Meri Poghosyan and Edita Hovhannisyan

AUT - 4-4 with Nicol Ruprecht and Valentina Domenig

AZE - 4-4 with Zohra Aghamirova and Arzu Jalilova

BIH - 4-4 with Nejla Muradbegovic and Sara Bejdic

BLR - Halkina is off the list; they decided for 4-4 with Harnasko and Salos

BUL - 4-4 with Kaleyn and Taseva

CRO - 3-2-3 with Lana Sambol, Barbara Selendic and Tamara Artic

CYP - 4-2-2 with Anna Sokolova, Laura Hernandez, Neofyta Mavrikiou

CZE - 4-3-1 with Gaia Garoffolo, Barbora Kafkova and Nela Pochyla

ESP - 4-4 with Polina Berezina and Natalia Garcia

EST - 4-2-2 with Viktoria Bogdanova, Polina Murashko and Melany Keler

FIN - 4-4 with Sofia Egorova and Emilia Helin

FRA - 4-4 with Maelle Millet and Kseniya Moustafaeva

GBR - 3-3-2 with Gemma Frizelle, Marfa Ekimova, Alice Leaper

GEO - 4-3-1 with Salome Pazhava, Ketevan Arbolishvili and Nutsa Janashvili

GER - 4-4 with Margarita Kolosov and Melanie Dargel

GRE - 4-4 with Kelaiditi and Magopoulou

HUN - 4-4 with Fanni Pigniczki and Hanna Panna Wiesner

ISR - 4-4 with Ashram and Zelikman

ITA - 4-4 with Agiurgiuculese and Raffaeli; Milena Baldassarri is off the list and replaced with Sofia

LAT - 4-2-2 with Jelizaveta Polstjanaja, Santa Stepulane and Anna Murikova

LUX - 4-4 with Elena Smirnova and Sophie Turpel

MDA - 4-4 with Anastasia Guz and Ella Crijanovschii

MKD - just Rejchl Stojanov

NOR - 4-3-1 with Josephine Juul Møller, Ingrid Bratsberg and Fredrikke Tynning-Bergestuen

POL - Malgorzata Roszatycka

ROU - 3-3-2 with Andreea Verdes, Denisa Mailat and Annaliese Dragan (a very weird choice, given that both Verdes and Mailat are in contention for an Olympic quota)

RUS - 4-3-1 with Dina Averina, Arina Averina, Lala Kramarenko

SLO - 4-4 with Podgorsek and Vedeneeva

SMR - 4-2-2 with Lucia Castiglioni, Giulia Casali and Matilde Tamagnini

SRB - 4-2-2 with Andrijana Blazic, Nikolina Lekovic and Jovana Jeftic

SUI - Livia Maria Chiariello

TUR - 4-2-2 with Kamelya Tuncel, Victoria Sidorova and Nilgun Sariouglu

UKR - 4-3-1 with Viktoria Onoprienko, Khrystyna Pohranychna and Polina Karika

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ANDREEVI FAMILY TREE- Paternal Side

Paternal Side | Maternal Side [and their relation to Atanas, Borislava and Lyubka (my MC's and Jacob)]

Quick note: In Bulgaria,the middle name is based off the father's first name, so I included that. For the women, I included their maiden name in brackets and their new surname.

Kiril Dimitrov Andreev

Father, an inventor and plant alchemist with a slight disregard for the rules, which is how he and Emiliya met (she needed to enforce regulations, but he managed to charm his way out of serious trouble, and into a date). He speaks and reads fluent Bulgarian and Latin. He’s credited with inventing the ‘Linguistic Earring’- an earring that can translate any spoken language to one the wearer can understand. He got the idea from his mother’s potion, and invented the earring as a complimentary item to erase the drawback of the potion. He’s quite friendly and far more laid-back than his other half, and loves to make things for his family (he also made the siblings’ jewelry). He influenced Nasko’s inventive nature, and taught him some alchemy when he was older.

Maya Dimitrova Bogdanova (Andreeva)

Paternal aunt, older sister to Kiril. She owns a clothing store in Sofia, where she sells homemade enchanted articles of clothing. They’re usually enchanted for basic purposes like keeping you cool in the summer or warm in the winter no matter how many layers you wear, or changing colours according to your outfit,however she has a secret stash behind the counter: that stash is dedicated to cursed clothing, the kind you’ll gift to an enemy to make them break out in hives, or clothes that will fuse with their skin until they say a specific phrase.

Todorka Dimitrova Milenova (Andreeva)

Paternal aunt, Kiril’s oldest sister. She’s a stay-at-home mom to 2 children, and is highly skilled in domestic spells. She loves arts and crafts, and sometimes sells her creations. She’s well experienced with healing and domestic spells, and has experience as a midwife. She’s the most responsible of the three and her siblings look to her for help and advice instead of their parents.

Dimitar Rumenin Andreev

Paternal grandfather, a Seer who worked as an Auror, well versed in the Dark Arts and magical creatures. He had to retire early because, while his Seer abilities helped him anticipate incoming attacks, sometimes visions would incapacitate him at bad times, like in combat. He’s very friendly and loves children, so his grandchildren are his soft spot and he loves telling them stories of his ‘adventures’ (this likely resulted in their curious natures). He taught his grandchildren basic self-defence and conflict de-escalation, as well as how to recognise Dark artifacts.

Hristina Lyubomirova Andreeva (Iordanova)

Paternal grandmother. She’s a skilled potioneer and owns a personal potions business popular in Bulgaria; she even invented a potion that makes the drinker able to speak a language they didn’t know (they pick so long as they’re focused on it) for up to a week. This makes it so the drinker can say what they mean in their own language and have it come out as translated, but they can’t understand the language when they hear it. She’s quite strict, with high standards for herself and others, and she shows her love by giving out gifts and advice. She’s very reliable and pulls through for her family above all else.

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Okay, so I got to watching a ton of competition freestyle slalom skating videos after finding the full version of my previous reblog, and do you know what I think makes Sofia Bogdanova so good, at least the reason you can subconsciously pick up on it immediately? It's the freedom she has with her upper body to fully extend her arms. When you watch almost anyone else do their most difficult tricks, you can see their elbows bend slightly and their arms go to more neutral positions, mostly but not fully extended, slightly below horizontal, because that position gives you the most flexibility to move them in any direction to counteract whatever imprecision is in your movements. While of course it's dramatized by the way she's always holding her hands, I don't think that's necessarily fundamentally what makes her look like a ballet dancer; I think it's the fact that she never has any of those moments where her upper body goes back to saying, okay, I am doing a balancing-based sport now. Her whole routine looks uncanny, like what her upper body is doing is both fundamentally linked to and yet in some ways totally separate from what her lower body is doing is because every motion she makes puts herself in the right place to fully extend her arms into the next one, as if it's impossible for her to make a mistake with the skates. It feels like she's not hesitating partially because she isn't, but partially because there's no slack anywhere in the path she takes in which "hesitating" would really mean anything.

It makes me think about the experience you get watching things like figure skating or freestyle gymnastics in the Olympics, at least in the US on NBC. There's always this sort of weird disconnect in which you know that every little thing these athletes is doing is basically impossible, but it's hard to appreciate exactly what's the hardest bit without the announcer telling you, and the sort of whole premise of the routines and the music and the costumes is that it's an artistic endeavor and a form of expression, but at least in my experience that doesn't really come through at the olympic level.

This provides an interesting contrast to that, in my opinion. When you watch slalom rollerskating, it's immediately obvious how difficult it is and how amazing these people are at it to be able to do it at all. And then on top of that there's this absurd level of skill in which all traces of the thing being difficult and limiting what you can do are gone, and it just becomes a tool of artistic expression (that also still looks fucking impossible).

Edit: This video is really the camera angle I would suggest watching this routine from. I love what the compressed camera angle does, too, though; it highlights the sort of thing I was talking about.

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Sofia Bogdanova video 4 Valladolid España 2019

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World Cup Tashkent 2021 Day 1 AA Results

Individuals

1. Arina Averina 54.350 tied with Dina Averina 54.350

3. Anastasia Salos 51.100

4. Alina Harnasko 47.750

5. Sofia Raffaeli 47.600

6. Laura Zeng 47.150

7. Sabina Tashkenbaeva 47.100

8. Ekaterina Vedeneeva 46.700

9. Ekaterina Fetisova 46.450

10. Jelizaveta Polstjanaja 46.350

11. Fanni Pigniczki 46.250

12. Tatyana Volozhanina 46.225

13. Evita Griskenas 44.550

14. Khrystyna Pohranychna 44.450

15. Viktoria Onoprienko 43.875

16. Alina Adilkhanova 43.650

17. Kamelya Tuncel 43.250

18. Chisaki Oiwa 43.000

19. Adilya Tlekenova 42.950

20. Denisa Mailat 42.900

21. Natalia García 42.450

22. Eleni Kelaiditi 42.300

23. Viktoria Bogdanova 42.050

24. Andreea Verdes 41.950

25. Helene Karbanov 41.500

26. Sofia Maffeis 41.300

27. Eva Brezalieva 41.000

28. Barbara Domingos 40.900

29. Polina Berezina 40.350

30. Rejchl Stojanov 40.250

31. Arzu Jalilova 40.100

32. Hanna Wiesner 39.800

33. Narmina Samadova 38.700

34. Natalia Gaudio 38.400

35. Nicol Ruprecht 38.250

36. Viktoria Sidorova 38.000

37. Karla Díaz 37.950

38. Anna Murikova 37.625

39. Silva Sargsyan 35.350

40. Kim Chaewoon 35.125

41. Milena Weronika Gorska 34.500

42. Barbora Kafkova 34.150

43- Marie-Anett Kaasik 33.750

44. Laura Maria Osada 33.550

45. Rut Castillo Galindo 33.250

46. Ella Crijanovschii 32.750

47. Tina Hajdinjak 32.200

48. Gaia Garoffolo 31.700

49. Agata Bykovskaia 30.800

50. Aisha Izabekova 28.200

Groups

Uzbekistan 41.250

Belarus 36.850

Israel 36.600

Mexico 36.300

Ukraine 33.250

Turkey 32.050

Spain 30.750

Kazakhstan 29.100