Ataman of the Australian Cossacks Semyon Boykov on the air of the program “There is a theme!” on , he spoke about the campaign with the appearance of Russian flags and posters depicting President Vladimir Putin after Australian Open matches.
Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic’s father Srdjan Djokovic met fans outside Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on Wednesday and posed next to a man in a Z-shirt waving a Putin Russian flag. Passers-by filmed a video showing Srdjan Djokovic saying “zivjeli Russiyani” or “long live the Russians”. Following the release of the photos, Tennis Australia warned players and their teams against using prohibited flags.
Also earlier, tournament organizers confirmed that Russian state symbols were banned.
– As soon as we learned that the Australian authorities, in collaboration with the tournament management, started to ban our Russian flags, we could not pass. We had to plan a local special operation to thwart the enemies in order to deploy our flags. The situation came to a head when the Ukrainian ambassador “crossed paths” with Novak Djokovic’s father for allowing himself to say “long live the Russians”. It is necessary to pay tribute to the father of the athlete, he refused to apologize and continue to talk. He defended his honor and the honor of Russia to the end, he decided to boycott the final of the tournament.
During one of Djokovic’s last matches, Ukrainian fans came and started shouting obscene slogans against Daniil Medvedev. For this, they were expelled from the auditorium. It’s good that Australia is also excluding Ukrainian fans.
I can say that Russia won. One out of two players (in the Australian Open semi-finals – Editor’s note) is either Russian, Serbian or Belarusian. We can say that the goals and objectives of the community have been achieved. We showed the Russian spirit, we showed that we cannot be silenced, we will not hide our symbols and the national flag,” Boikov said.
Earlier in the Australian Open semi-final, Russian Karen Khachanov lost to Stefanos Tsitsipas. In another semi-final right now, Serbian Novak Djokovic meets American Tommy Paul.
Source : MatchTV
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