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Ksenia Monko and Kirill Khaliavin performing in the 2011 Junior Worlds gala.

(Sources: 1 and 2)

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Kirill Khalyavin is now a dad!

Let's congratulate Kirill and his wife (and former ice dance partner) Ksenia for the birth of their first baby 👶

Congratulations!

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jgpf and russian sweeps | ice dance

2010 | 🥇Monko/Khaliavin 🥈Sinitsina/Zhiganshin 🥉Stepanova/Bukin

2011 | 🥇Sinitsina/Zhiganshin 🥈Yanovskaya/Mozgov 🥉Stepanova/Bukin

2014 | 🥇Yanovskaya/Mozgov 🥈Loboda/Drozd 🥉Popova/Vlasenko

2018 | 🥇Shevchenko/Eremenko 🥈 Ushakova/Nekrasov 🥉Khudaiberdieva/Nazarov

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A Russian ice dance couple worth shipping! Kirill now competes for Spain with Sara Hurtado and Ksenia had to retire a few years ago because of injury. But they are adorable and they got married in 2017❤️ I loved when they skated together, they had chemistry and potential❤️⛸

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Sara Hurtado and Kirill Khaliavin 11/3/92 and 11/21/90

2x Spanish national champions (Sara won 5 more with previous partner Adrián Diaz). Kirill was 2011 World Junior champion with his previous partner, Ksenia Monko

Team Scorpio. Sara is a Scorpio with Aquarius moon: emotionally deep with unusual ways of thinking. a need for freedom to express yourself and maybe fixed about your ideas, like it's hard to see other points of view if you feel you're right.

She has Mercury and Venus in Sagittarius, both out of bounds: unique and original perspective but can have blind spots. Adventurous and free spirited. Mercury sextile Jupiter makes you curious, good natured and a good communicator. Sun sextile Uranus: you enjoy being different and are very creative

Sun square Saturn: feeling like being recognized for who you are is difficult, that it takes so much energy and work to make even small gains. This can come with impatience and feeling blocked, self doubt that comes from not being easily validated.

But she has Mars trine Pluto: strong-willed and powerfully determined, with deep reserves of energy. intense and confident, a charismatic force.

Kirill is also a Scorpio but with Capricorn moon: sincere and calm, private, determined and persevering. There's a lot in his chart that says he's intense and unconventional- he has 3 planets out of bounds- moon, Mercury, and Uranus - that's someone outside the mainstream, kind of unusual in his thinking, blunt, and independent. Might feel different in a way that feels or felt isolating, but used to it.

This past August, his progressed Sun changed signs (a once in 30 yrs occurrence) from Sagittarius to Capricorn - that shifts his energy from gathering experiences and knowledge and expanding his views to focusing on achieving tangible results, working towards things in a structured way and aiming for the top.

Mercury trine Jupiter: a positive attitude and a spirit of generosity. broad minded and social

Venus opposite Mars: intense emotions and equally intense and often turbulent relationships. has high physical energy

Mars inconjunct Uranus: another sign of intensity - driven and feeling impatience or urgency to do things now. quirky.

Jupiter inconjunct Neptune: this can cause problems with your judgment being removed from objective reality. there can be guilt or feeling that you owe more than you do, or that you put other people's judgments before your own

In their composite, the Sun conjuncts Pluto in Scorpio, doubly emphasizing their Scorpio natures, since Pluto relates to Scorpio: a relationship that has a deep effect on both of them, tearing them down to rebuild- periods of difficulty followed by coming back stronger if they can weather it

Uranus conjunct North Node: this partnership brings something untried and new for them both- together they're drawn to what's fresh and progressive. more spontaneous together than individually. an odd mix that works.

Mercury conjunct Venus: shared appreciation and tastes in beauty or art. sensitive to each other's feelings

Mercury/Venus square Jupiter: optimism, affection, and enjoyment. might overestimate what is realistic to take on

Jupiter trine Uranus and Neptune: creative with a unique self-expression. Idealistic, with a feeling that they have been brought together for higher reasons.

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Congrats and best wishes on the marriage of co-2010 Junior World medalists Ksenia Monko and Kirill Khaliavin, the other half of this fun and ironic podium sandwich!

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Ice Dance Junior World Champions: change partners

2008 Emily Samuelson/Evan Bates🥇. Vanessa Crone/Paul Poirier🥈. Kristina Gorshkova/Vitali Butakov🥉

2009 Madison Chock/Greg Zuerlein🥇. Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani🥈. Ekaterina Riazanova/Jonathan Guerreiro🥉

2010 Elena Ilinykh/Nikita Katsalapov 🥇. Alexandra Paul/Mitchell Islam🥈. Ksenia Monko/Kirill Khaliavin🥉

2012 Viktoria Sinitsina/Ruslan Zhiganshin🥇. Alexandra Stepanova/Ivan Bukin🥈. Alexandra Aldridge/Daniel Eaton🥉

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H/K have won the selection criteria two years in a row and both years S/D are getting worlds. I think it would be fair to express frustration with the selection criteria and advocate for a body of work instead, but it would be tremendously unfair for the Fed to keep yanking the rug out from under H/K. (Also, at least in terms of basic SS, Khaliavin is easily the strongest of the four. Its not obvious on video, but I saw him with Monko and he was VERY good.)

I completely agree with you anon, and more than anything transparency is much needed in the french federation in order to really make things fair.

But the responses Smart/Diaz get are hateful to a point that is completely out of line when of course 99% of the hate is toward Olivia who is young and inexperienced and I don’t like to call misogyny but fuck yeah the responses she gets reeks of misogyny as people don’t like seeing a young women who is very confident and extrovert. 

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Ksenia Monko and Kirill Khaliavin's angsty free dance costumes at the 2015 Skate Canada and 2015 Rostelecom Cup.

(Sources: icenetwork, ISU Figure Skating and Dilola)

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On Has Beens and Could Have Beens

If you were to tell me in May 2015 that 2 years later, I would be writing about the demise of I/Z, I’d have said you were crazy. But if you told me in December 2016, I would have only asked if things were so bad that Ruslan wouldn’t wait until the end of the quad.

There are a lot of versions of Ruslan’s retirement coming from his camp, Elena’s camp, and other people’s camps. But they all imply that Ruslan made a conscious decision to quit and whether he really has health problems is beside the point. He can no longer skate with Elena, physically or mentally, and would rather teach kids at various rinks around Russia than skate with Elena.

So who could refuse to skate with the lovely, talented Elena? It seems, many. When Nikita ran off with Vika, it was easy to blame Nikita. After all, they had just won a bronze medal in Sochi, Nikita botched the twizzles, he was a known douche, Morozov was involved, and it was leaked to the press during worlds. Sure, there had been whispers years earlier that Elena was lazy and impossible to work with but that was ignored when she chose to work with the unglamorous but hard working Kustarova group. And in that first season, she really did work her ass off and it showed when they somehow made it to the GPF and won Russian Nationals. It seemed either Elena had turned over a new leaf or all those rumors were exaggerated by her enemies

But slowly, it began to be apparent that old habits died hard. Showing up to worlds looking out of shape, the fact that her unemployed boyfriend kept showing up at places he shouldn’t be, and cryptic letters from the federation about proper training habits started implying that Elena was not training as she should. But after a disastrous nationals, the blame went to their coaching staff.

So off they went to a new coach and new environment and things were looking up. But again, rumors began appearing. In July some people posted that while Ruslan was killing himself in training, Elena would not do a thing unless Igor worked with them, and that there was a discrepancy between Elena’s size in her Instagram photos and what she looked like in real life. It was easy to dismiss it then given the bitchy nature of the posters. But photos from other sources, like Louis Thauron or Victor Voronov showed a less in shape version. When respected journalist Elena Vaitsekhovskaya wrote that Elena was 10 kilos overweight and the possibility of the team losing their sponsor, it was easy to dismiss her claims as being motivated by bias. But then a German article also mentioned Elena looking out of shape at summer training but again fans dismissed it.

So Skate America comes and goes with the team looking woefully unprepared and Elena sporting a gut and bat wings and the team being seen back in Moscow by the next weekend. Suddenly, the fans are scrambling for excuses that don’t add up Stories that Elena had bronchitis before the test skates don’t seem to match when you see Elena out and about in Chicago. Or that the sponsor would only pay for Igor when you consider whether a rich guy has that much time to care about ice dance fan wars.

Through all that, it was becoming apparent just how fed up Ruslan was with his partner. While he looked super excited at the beginning to be skating with such a talent, by the time of the Olympians Ball in December, you got the sense that Ruslan was over the whole thing. His look of utter embarrassment at competitions solidified that.

Thus, it became no surprise to me that Ruslan threw in the towel. Nor did it become a surprise to me that Elena and her fans are scrambling to spin the situation to make Ruslan look less sympathetic as possible. Nor is it a surprise that outside of Elena’s most fervent and die hard supporters, no one is really believing anything she says. Because it has become apparent that the stories Elena presents through her fans could best be described as alternative facts. To portray yourself as highly motivated while your partner is lazy doesn’t add up when you are smoking cigarettes and haven’t been seen at the rink in ages while your partner goes to the rink everyday and is still relatively cut for his size despite not training hard. And to use the excuse that it’s just too painful to go to the rink, is well, laughable. We can also scoff that Kustarova's continued love for her as proof of her work ethic. After all, Kustarova coldly banished the ambitious and hard working Anna Yanovskaya, once it became apparent their interests no longer aligned (I.e., Anna wanted a new coach), while she coddled the mercurial Mozgov despite his lack of ambition, because his interests aligned with theirs (well, until he chose Betina over them).

And now we have probably the most talented ice dancer in the world, sitting around, doing nothing. People will lament that her talent has been wasted and then quickly start arguing about the artistic merits of Papadakis and Cizeron’s next programs. And where does that leave Elena Ilinykh? A few years trying to pretend some Guillaume Cizeron clone is waiting for her, when her best options are Egor Bazin and Daniel Eaton? Trying to turn her beauty blog into something? Media is fickle. She’s lucky Mamun is as dry as the Sahara, Mustafina got pregnant, and Kudryavtseva turned out to be an unappealing bimbo so that extends her media shelf life until the world discovers Pogo, Med, Zagitova, and whoever. Ice age? Not without Averbukh’s say so.

In a way, she reminds me of LeAnn Rimes, who wasted every ounce of her considerable talent and whose life, instead of Grammys and CMAs, consists of food festival appearances, non-existent musical content engagement, a loser husband, a few die hard fans on Twitter that she pays to harass her husband’s ex-wife, and an extremely active social media account. Instead of Worlds and Olympics, Elena is left with a group of die hard fans who exist only to inflate her ego and justify her behavior. Instead of half hour TV profiles, she’s given a minute long segment where she is subsequently mocked by the narrator.

Like LeAnn, Elena can blame her fate on outside forces, like evil federation officials, dishonest partners, and incompetent coaches, but in the end, her own actions and inability to take responsibility were her ultimate undoing. If Elena had spent half as much time in steps and runthroughs as she does on photoshop and spinning stories, we’d be discussing something completely different today.

Is Ruslan entirely blameless in the demise of I/Z? No. He was always the inferior partner in terms of talent and built like Alexander Smirnov, he would never be. And he seemed to have lost his back bone as far as music choices was concerned. But did he put in the effort? Yes. Did he improve considerably? Yes. And who was he without Elena? A seventh place finisher at worlds, a fourth place finisher at Euros. Who was he with Elena?A seventh place finisher at worlds, a fourth place finisher at Euros. Would he have been national champion with Sinitsina? With no Bobrova and Soloviev or Ilinykh and Katsalapov, definitely. Sinitsina and Zhiganshin beat Monko and Khaliavin and Stepanova and Bukin several times, so it's not out of the realm of possibility they could have beaten them. And who knows what a top coach like Shpilband could have done with them. They were a team that worked extremely well together and had an incredible work ethic. A solid work ethic and a top,coach could go a long way.

Elena, the more talented of the two, for whatever reason, was not training as she could and, as a result, her skills regressed. And you can’t blame the inferiority of her partner on that one. Just look at Svetlana Zakharova. She’s pushing 40. Tsiskaridze, Ruzimatov, Filin, Zelensky, are all gone. Her most frequent partner at the Bolshoi of late has been Denis Rodkin, a pretty boy 10 years her junior who entered the Bolshoi with no ballet training. At La Scala, she was once given a 19 year old kid fresh out of ballet school. Do you think she skips rehearsals, shows up to the performances, and leaves the partner to figure out her lift timing, just because she’s Zakharova? Meanwhile, Elena seems to pick and choose what she will work on. Of course, she’ll work overtime trying to find music, and she’ll watch countless videos to see who’s be a great choreographer for them. But the question is, will she actually bother with the endless repetition of steps and elements, once the fun part is finished. Will she run in the treadmill for an hour in July, when there are no competitions? That’s the question.

Right now, everybody is moving on. Sinitsina and Katsalapov have another new coach. Bobrova and Soloviev are working with Radu Poklitaru. Stepanova and Bukin are working with Chernyshev. After a brief period of mourning and after she and her fan girls lose their voices trying to convince the world that she is someone relevant and everybody has worked to destroy her, who will care about Elena Ilinykh?

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I love it when Russian figure skating pairs (or in this case an ice dance pair) fall in love and get married💖

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Spain’s Hurtado and Khaliavin regroup for 2017-18

#Figureskate #WorldJuniorFigureSkatingChampionships [goldenskate.com]Sara Hurtado and Kirill Khaliavin, who teamed up last spring, won the national title and represented Spain at the 2017 ISU European Figure Skating ... and World Championships with his former partner Ksenia Monko. With her, he also won the World Junior ...

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