Director of Kazan Volleyball Club “Zenith” Oleg Bryzgalov told that the team did not discuss the possible departure of an American player from Russia Miki Christenson following a call from US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken commented Thursday on the arrest in Russia of US Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter Evan Gershkovich. The statement states, among other things, that “US citizens living or traveling in Russia should leave the country immediately.”
– For the moment, this issue has not been discussed with us. This is not the first appeal to American citizens not to come here or to leave Russia. Naturally, previous calls with Christenson were discussed. At the same time, there was no conversation in the spirit: “How do you react to this?” The player just kept training and reacted with absolute calm, not paying attention to this call.
He understands that nothing threatens him here. Mika trains quite calmly here. On the contrary, everyone is very positive about his game in Russia. All experts consider him an adornment of our Superleague. He is aware. He had no reason to worry either last year or this year. So today we are not raising this issue and there was no reaction from the player,” Bryzgalov told .
Christenson has been at Zenit since 2021. He is the bronze medalist of the 2016 Olympics.
Source : MatchTV
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