Athletistic / Tennis. Olympic speed skating champion and now a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Svetlana Zhurova commented on the handshake between Russian and Ukrainian tennis players.

Earlier at the Junior Australian Open, Ukraine’s Elizaveta Kotlyar and Russia’s Vlada Mincheva shook hands after the match. The match ended with the victory of Mincheva with a score of 6:2, 6:4.

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Zhurova suggested that Kotliar could have problems in Ukraine.

“The girl in her country will most likely be persecuted for this. But let’s be happy for this act, thank God there is someone who considers this normal. Apparently, maybe they know each other, maybe they trained together. It happens that they “We were friends, then the country ordered not to shake hands,” Zhurova quotes TASS.


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