"Alina" festival

• 21.07.2011
  Video of 2011 Festival
  
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• 20.07.2011
  Third International Selection Tournament for “Alina” Rhythmic Gymnastics Festival (20th May 2011)
  So the third “Alina” international rhythmic gymnastics festival is now over. I want to tell you about all the new elements, who we invited, how were prepared and all the interesting things that happened.
  
  First of all, the festival now has a much wider geographical coverage. We’ve got people coming not only from the CIS countries, but also from Cuba, Israel, Germany and Bulgaria. In addition, this year the festival included performances not only by rhythmic gymnastics, but also aesthetic, aerial and even athletic gymnasts! Everyone was really impressed by a joint performance from the Todes ballet school and the acrobats, who performed jumps on the acrobatic mats to the sound of drumming.
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• 04.07.2011
  Second International Selection Tournament for “Alina” Rhythmic Gymnastics Festival (19th March 2011)
  was all really well organized. But then I had the idea of running the second selection tournament not in the capital (where the facilities are much better, of course), but in the small regional town of Nizhnekamsk. The main reason for this decision was that I’m responsible for Nizhnekamsk as a people’s deputy; I spend a lot of time there, and it’s where I hold my voters’ surgeries. Over these three and a half years I’ve become very attached to the town and I wanted to give it something to celebrate, to draw attention… the attention of the people who live there, to sport, to rhythmic gymnastics and, of course, to show the tournament competitors some other Russian towns apart from Moscow.
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• 17.02.2011
  Video of the 2010 festival (full version)
  
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• 04.02.2011 14:25:27
  Performance at the 2010 “Alina” Festival
  Since giving up professional sport I’ve hardly performed anywhere, though rhythmic gymnastics fans have often asked me to. But suddenly I had this idea of performing before the little kids at the children’s rhythmic gymnastics festival run by my charity foundation.
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  30.06.2010
  “Alina” Festival 2010
  Overall, I think the festival was excellent. Compared to last year’s, it was a big step forward. Of course, we had incomparably better conditions to prepare in than we had in 2009: we had more time, held a proper selection tournament and put the programme together.
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• 17.04.2010
  “Alina” Selection Tournament
  This was the first year we’ve run a selection tournament. Initially I wanted to hold it for just one reason – to find and select teams for the rhythmic gymnastics festival that I run for Child Protection Day.
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  15.07.2009
  Children’s Gymnastics Festival
  

  At last, my dream has come true! For a long time now I’ve wanted to organize a children’s gymnastics festival where little gymnasts could display their abilities. But not in the form of a competition – simply a big party for children, at which nobody worries about winning points or getting marks.

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