Katerina Johnovna Keyru (russian: Катерина Джоновна Кейру; later Novoseltseva, russian: Новосельцева; born 4 December 1988) is a Russian basketball

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. She was part of the Russian team that won the 2008 European junior championships. Keyru was born to

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, who in 1976 came to study in Rostov and married there. She has three brothers: Olah, Willy and Victor Keyru, Victor. Olah is an actor, Willy is a singer, and Victor is an international basketball player. Katerina took up basketball aged 7 following her brothers. In 2015, she married the Russian football player Ivan Novoseltsev, who proposed her after an official football match, in front of the crowd.

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