What is Alina Kabayeva?
[[File:KabaevaOrdercropped.jpg|thumb|Alina Kabaeva]] '''Alina Kabaeva''' ({{lang-ru|Али́на Мара́товна Каба́ева}}, born [[May 12]], [[1983]], [[Tashkent]], [[Uzbek SSR]]) is a [[Russia]]n former-[[rhythmic gymnastics|rhythmic gymnast]]. She started competing since she was 12, and stopped when she was 24. She won several medals at World Championships, two Olympic medals (one bronze, one gold) and she came up with some of the flexibility-required moves in the sport. She was trained by [[Irina Alexandrova Viner|Irina Viner]]. Now she works for [[State Duma]]. Kabayeva is rumored to be [[President of Russia|Russian President]] [[Vladimir Putin]]'s girlfriend.<ref>{{cite news|last=Herszenhorn|first=David M.|title=In the Spotlight of Power, Putin Keeps His Private Life Veiled in Shadows|date=5 May 2012|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/world/europe/preparing-return-to-presidency-putin-keeps-his-private-life-off-limits.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=29 April 2020|url-access=registration|archive-date=24 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524135720/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/world/europe/preparing-return-to-presidency-putin-keeps-his-private-life-off-limits.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-sanction-putin-alleged-girlfriend-alina-kabaeva/|title=EU sanctions Putin's alleged girlfriend Alina Kabaeva|last=Moens|first=Barbara|date=3 June 2022|website=[[Politico]]|publisher=[[Axel Springer SE]]|access-date=5 June 2022|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220605153120/https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-sanction-putin-alleged-girlfriend-alina-kabaeva/|archive-date=5 June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Jackson|first=Jon|date=3 June 2022|title=Putin's Rumored Girlfriend Sanctioned by EU|url=https://www.newsweek.com/putin-rumored-girlfriend-sanctioned-eu-1712766|url-status=live|magazine=[[Newsweek]]|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220615114107/https://www.newsweek.com/putin-rumored-girlfriend-sanctioned-eu-1712766|ar