The reason for the departure of figure skater Tursynbaeva from MGIMO became known

Padishakhan Sultanalieva, mother of the vice-world champion Elizabeth Tursynbaeva told that the skater was forced to transfer from MGIMO to a Kazakh university due to international sanctions.

Tursynbaeva is a student of Eteri Tutberidze. Under her leadership, the athlete won a silver medal at the World Championships in 2019. In the fall of 2020, Tursynbaeva announced her retirement from her sports career due to health problems. The same year, she entered MGIMO. Today she lives and works in Kazakhstan, developing her figure skating school and also pursuing higher education.

— My Lisa transferred to another university – KIMEP University in Kazakhstan. Even after the first lesson. She only got straight A’s, and it was the same at MGIMO.

The reason for the transfer is solely due to international sanctions. After all, they announced that the MGIMO diploma would then be unusable in America, Canada and European countries. In other words, it will not be possible to work with this diploma in most countries. Only in the CIS.

And Lisa’s profession is that of an international journalist, which initially implies a world-class career. It’s a world-class university, and we didn’t know when we entered that there would be sanctions, that we wouldn’t be accepted anywhere with a Russian passport. So I had to change university. Lisa plans to realize herself later as a coach and pursue this profession,” the figure skater’s mother told .