Thanks to the RGF who have now published competitor lists for the Russia Cup, which begins tomorrow. My best attempt at transliterating the names, some of which are unfamiliar, is given below. Women Anna Pavlova Yuna Nefedova Yulia Chemaryeva Marina Nekrasova Yulia Inshina Kristina Kruglikova Yulia Tipaeva Daria Elizarova Yana Popova Kristina Sidorova Anna Rodionova Polina Fyodorova Olga Bikmurzina Irina Andreeva Yelena Shcherbakova Anastasia Grishina Maria Paseka Alla Sosnitskaya Anastasia Marchuk Tatiana Nabiyeva Diana Ravdina Anastasia Cheong Ekaterina Kramarenko Lilia Akhaimova Alla Sidorenko Men Maxim Khodkin Andrei Perevoznikov Kirill Prokopyev Anton Neyudakin Mikhail Simakov Alexei Bogdanov Maxim Semagin Andrei Matucheshkin Alexander Balandin Matvei Petrov Nikita Ignatyev Grigori Zyrianov Daniil Kazachkov Andrei Lagutov Alexei Byikov Andrei Sovenko Pavel Russinyak Pavel Pavlov Sergei Stepanov Villyam Katyn Mikha...
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