Dancing in front of the Louvre!

Not only do the group girls like to do spoof videos, but they also like to dance...in very public places!!  Like in front of the Louvre!!

Ksyu, Sasha, Karolina, Olya, Blizia, Ul, Nazar

Here's a video from 2012, where Ksyu, Blizia, Ul, Makar & Karolina were dancing to Michael Telo's worldwide hit "Ai Se Eu Te Pego."

I'm actually kind of surprised that Karolina is involved, but clearly she doesn't quite know all the moves... :P
Clearly Sasha or Olga or Nazar was filming this, but I'm not sure who (maybe Nazar)!

Goodbye Kazan; hello Moscow!

Here are the last round of pics from the Universiade in Kazan!
At the closing ceremony...

Ksyu & Rita looking like it's graduation

Blizia

Nazar

Nastia M, Elena, Olga

...and just hanging out

Olga, Ksyu, Blizia, Elena, Nazar, Rita, Sasha

(Once again, I think it's hilarious that the group girls are always matchy-matchy, while the individual girls wear whatever they want!)

From top to bottom: Olga, Elena, Nastia M; Sasha, Nazar, Rita, Blizia; ?, Ksyu

Official mascot (snow leopard) & Nazar

Olga

Sasha, Nazar, Rita

Now the girls are back in Moscow!!  YAY!

Sasha, Rita

Ksyu, Blizia; Nastia M, Olga, Nazar

And, as usual, the group girls are up to their crazy antics... :)

Nastia M, Blizia, Nazar, Ksyu

Blizia, Nastia M, Nazar, Ksyu

And now the girls go crazy!

The competition in Kazan is over, so now the girls got their phones back (finally!) and have been making up for lost time.  FUN!!  I totally love these photos with the cut-out backgrounds!!

Ksyu, Nazar, Nastia M being hilarious

Blizia, Rita, Ksyu

Of course, they made a beeline for McDonald's...

...and took photos with the other athletes...

Ksyu, Sasha, ?, Nazar, ?, Nastia M

..and created a spectacle in the dining hall!
Download video: MP4 format
Original link here.
And here are some photos from the competition. Big congrats to my girls!! MOLODYETS~!

Top: Elena, Nastia M, Blizia, Nazar, Ksyu, Olga; Front: ?, Tatyana Sergaeva, Irina Zenovka, Armina Zaripova

Elena, Olga, Nastia M, Nazar, Blizia, Ksyu

Sasha, Rita, Ganna Rizatdinova after all-around competition

At the Universiade!

Looks like the girls are having a lot of fun at the Summer Universiade!
This photo totally cracked me up!  Blizia and Ksyu match their painted characters surprisingly well! AHAHAHAHA!

Blizia, Nazar, Ksyu

Here's the group...

Ksyu, Olga, Nastia M, Blizia, Elena, Nazar

...and then the individual gymnasts.

Rita, Lisa, Sasha

And my darlings looking so cool in their Universiade gear. :)

Blizia, Ksyu, Nazar

I wonder how the group decides what to wear when they all wear the same clothing (as opposed to the individual gymnasts who tend to wear different things). Group vote? :P

In Kazan!

Here's the whole team hanging out and training in Kazan!

Back: Rita, Blizia, Nastia M, Olga, choreographer, Ksyu, Tatiana Sergaeva (coach), Nazar; Front: Masha, Anna, Armina, Di, Olga Romanchenko (?), Elena

Front to back: Nazar, Blizia, Ksyu

Top to bottom: Anna, Ksyu, Masha, Nazar, Armina, Rita, Di

And here are some photos from the trip from Croatia!

Nastia M & Blizia

Yay for private planes!!

Clockwise from left: Nastia M, Nazar, Blizia, Leonid, Olga, Elena, Rita, Sasha, Ksyu

Blizia & Leonid Zinchenko (team doctor)

Leaving on a jet plane...

Well, the girls do usually travel by commercial plane (in coach/economy) when they're going to competitions...

Nastia M, Makar, Olga, Ksyu

Yana Kudryavtseva, Dasha Svatkovskaya, Masha Titova

Zhenya, Sasha, Dasha D

Blizia

Yana Lukonina

  ...But sometimes they do get to travel by private plane (Daddy Usmanov's, of course!)...

Ksyu (looking SOOO bored), Makar; nice Uggs everyone!

...especially when they're going on vacation!!

Ul, Nazar, Blizia, Zhenya, Karolina, Dasha, Ksyu

(I love how the two Omsk girls--Zhenya & Ksyu--are talking on the phone. They're like the only ones who use a phone like a phone. Or maybe you don't get texts in Siberia! :P )

Ul, Blizia, Karolina, Nazar, Dasha D, Ksyu

Ul, Zhenya, Karolina

(Karolina seems especially fond of these private planes--or maybe it's just that she looks so much like she belongs on one....)

Sigghh, must be nice to be an RG girl!!

Shorts, shorts, shorts!

It's starting to feel like summer...time to break out those shortie shorts!!

Karolina & Dasha D

Yana

Sasha

Natasha Bulycheva

Zhenya

...Especially those little red Bosco shorts!

Makar & Ksyu

Zhenya

Dasha D, Zhenya, Kondak

Uli & Blizia