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Dancesportinfo.net did an interview with Hanna Karttunen in which she talked about her brief partnership with Slavik Kryklyvyy. It is an interesting read. She talks about how she and Slavik became a partner and explains that the difficulty in their partnership was due, in part, to their physical location differences, and continues to say: we [...]

I am not on the internet to spread a rumor ….. but I’ve read on the internet that Anna Melnikova is Slavik‘s new partner more than a couple of times. Is it true? As you can see in this post, Slavik and Hanna Karttunen split earlier this year. Anna is (was?) dancing with Stefano de [...]

Yes, it looks like it’s real this time. Slavik and Hanna split. It was reported on a Russian web site about a week ago. I don’t know Russian, so I had to use an online translation site to understand the article. Basically, they decided to end the partnership and did not give out any reasons. [...]

The next event where we can see Ricardo/Yulia and Slavik/Hanna compete is the WDC World Pro Am Championships in Bahamas. The event will be held on February 7 -10. According to this post at Dancesportinfo.net, the pro competition will be in a “gladiator style” duel format. Hmmmm. That’s interesting. Photos by Peter Suba posted at [...]

Photo by Alec Myers at dancesportinfo.net Much anticipated UK Open was held last week, and the results were somewhat surprising. According to DanceSportInfo.net, the professional latin divisions results are: 1 Michal Malitowski & Joanna Leunis (Poland) 2 Riccardo Cocchi & Yulia Zagorouitchenko (USA) 3 Sergey Sourkov & Agnieszka Melnicka (Poland) 4 Franco Formica & Oxana [...]

[Edited Jan. 28, 2009] It turned out that this was really a rumor. Slavik and Hanna competed in the UK Open. Photo by photo by Roman Stetsyk posted at Dancesportinfo. [Another Update] 2 videos of Slavik & Hanna have been posted here and here. This is just a quick note. I just heard a rumor [...]

The much anticipated performance by Slavik Kryklyvyy and Hanna Karttunen in New York in earlier this week seems to have been very successfull, according to this thread at Dance Forums. Photo by photo by Roman Stetsyk posted at Dancesportinfo. The routines seem to have been the same ones they did in October in Greece. So [...]