1. Tatyana Aleksandrovna Navka is a Russian former competitive ice dancer and the wife of Dmitry Peskov.
15 Facts About Tatiana Navka
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Tatiana Navka was born on 13 April 1975 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.
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Tatiana Navka is the daughter of Raisa, an economist, and Aleksandr, an engineer, and has a younger sister, Natalia.
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Tatiana Navka became interested in skating at the age of five after seeing it on television.
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In 1988, at the invitation of Russian coach Natalia Dubova, Tatiana Navka relocated to Moscow and began training at the Moskvich sports club, partnered with Samvel Gezalian.
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Tatiana Navka teamed up with Nikolai Morozov in 1996, continuing to represent Belarus.
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Tatiana Navka became pregnant with her daughter and took a year off from competition.
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In mid-2000, Kostomarov called Tatiana Navka and asked to skate with her again.
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Tatiana Navka has partnered with Russian celebrities to compete in Channel One Russia ice shows: Stars On Ice, which she won with actor Marat Basharov, and Ice Age, in which she was runner-up with actor Ville Haapasalo.
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Tatiana Navka became a citizen of Belarus by 1994 and of Russia no later than 2002.
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Tatiana Navka and Russian diplomat Dmitry Peskov, the press spokesman for Vladimir Putin, have a daughter, Nadezhda, born in August 2014 in Russia.
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From 2014 to 2015, Tatiana Navka was the beneficiary of Carina Global Assets Ltd.
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In 2016, Tatiana Navka caused controversy when she and her dancing partner, Andrey Burkovsky, appeared in the Russian version of Dancing on Ice dressed as Holocaust concentration camp prisoners.
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On 11 March 2022, Tatiana Navka was included in the list of specially designated nationals sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury as part of the international sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War due to her being the family of Dmitry Peskov, who had been blacklisted earlier in March because of his key role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Tatiana Navka was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.