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Russian promise Elena Eremina at control competition at Round Lake last week, 27th July.  Courtesy RGF www.sportgymrus.ru


Hello friends and readers

Just a quick line to say, I have not disappeared and I have not lost my love for Russian and Soviet gymnastics.

I'm not writing on this blog at present, largely because I have another, bigger project to concentrate on, and I can't do everything.  Over the years, a great deal of material has accumulated here and the internet has become populated with masses more information, self generated, state generated and media generated, about gymnastics in all the various eras.  I am, therefore, currently undertaking the monster - but not onerous - task of trying to unravel all the strands, create records, and begin to work out a structure for everything that lies behind this blog.  My ambition, over the years, is to produce some more lasting publications based on the amazing things the gymnasts did, and to record their legacy.

I'm still online at (i) Facebook under Rewriting Russian Gymnastics, at (ii) Twitter as Russiangymnast and on (iii) Instagram, in a rather more personal status, as Queenelizabethbooth.  Please do follow me there as I will try to keep you up to date and it would be lovely to hear from you from time to time if you want to comment on the links and pictures I post there.  Lioubov Baladzhaeva's blog, Gymnovosti, (Cherity on Twitter, where she posts links to all her work) is now the best current source for English language translations of the Russian press, so you should make sure to follow her so that you can keep up with the news.  The Russian Gymnastics Federation also now has accounts on social media under the headline of Top Russian Gymnastics, and the gymnasts have official Instagram accounts and some Youtube vlog accounts where they chart their progress.  There are a lot of fun things out there.

So, good luck and please keep in touch.  My work goes on, for now in the shadows but as soon as I have anything worthwhile to report, I will do so on social media.

Love and peace to you all.  Elizabeth
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