Athletistic / Figure skating Honorary President of the Russian Figure Skating Federation Valentin Piseev highlighted President Vladimir Putin’s contribution to the success of Russian figure skaters.

Today the official was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky.

“I want to thank Vladimir Vladimirovich for helping figure skating in 2007.

Then I looked for sponsors and approached Vladimir Vladimirovich and explained the situation to him. He invited (Vladimir) Kozhin and said: “Can’t you help? They’re asking for a penny.”

This situation has led to the fact that our skaters are leaders all over the world.

We have a difficult situation related to doping cases, but we will emerge victorious.

I’ve always said, “We skaters get out of the toughest situations.” We will emerge victorious from this one as well,” Piseev said at the R-Sport awards ceremony.