As it became known from , the Russian Hockey Federation (FHR) does not send any lists to the Russian Defense Ministry to protect national team players from military service.
On Friday it was learned that the police had arrested the goalkeeper Ivan Fedotov. Winner of the Gagarin Cup CSKA suspected of evading military service. In May, the player signed a contract with “Philadelphia Cream”.
– An exhaustive list of grounds for exemption from conscription for military service and grounds for postponement of military service is specified in the law. There is no mention of “guidelines” in the law. We do not understand where Svetlana Zhurova got this information from. But maybe that’s how the problem was “solved” in speed skating. But in hockey they don’t do that, ”a source close to the federation told .
Earlier, Olympic speed skating champion and State Duma deputy Svetlana Zhurova said in an interview with RB Sport: “Athletes, like all ordinary people, have to serve – in sports enterprises, in departments military. Whether they are hockey players, football players or skaters. For those who are part of the Russian national team, there is a special directive that they cannot be taken into the army. And if he plays for the national team, the federation had to submit a special document to the Ministry of Defense. Was it done according to Fedotov? This is a question for the FHR.
Fedotov became the silver medalist of the 2022 Olympics in the Russian national team.
Source : MatchTV
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