Athletistic / Other. Russian President’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov shared his opinion on the change of nationality of Russian athletes. He said he saw nothing wrong with that.

“I am hardly competent to give an assessment, I can only say that from my point of view there is nothing wrong with this, an athlete must be realized, I have an example from my wife (Tatiana Navka), an Olympic champion who began her career as a citizen of Belarus.

She is Ukrainian, then she was a citizen of Belarus, then she lived half her life in the United States, because the collapse of the Soviet Union could not give her the opportunity to compete, and she is grateful for that to America, then she became a citizen of the Russian Federation and received a gold medal (Olympics), so there is nothing wrong with that,” Peskov said. CASS.