Aleksey Nuzhdov: “Reserve colonel, under the age of 55, I have combat experience and a highly demanded higher education system. If they find it necessary to call, they will call”

Former Vice President of the RBU and Head of the Moscow Region Biathlon Federation Alexei Nuzhdov in an interview with , he said he was ready to mobilize for the SVO.

“Have you had to deal with sports armor in the context of a partial mobilization?”

– The federation has no such function. We can do something in a consultative way, the subject has been discussed. Everyone has the same approach, including athletes and coaches: to act strictly according to the law. A summons has come – you must appear. We can write a letter: an active athlete of such and such a level, plays for such and such a team. Not a petition, but an information document. But we don’t have the right to remove someone from the law, that’s just wrong.

– Your personal position: are well-trained people who know how to shoot excellently subject to mobilization?

– My position coincides with the constitution and all the regulations: what a citizen is supposed to do, he must do. I myself report to the first stage draft, since the colonel of the reserve has not reached the age of 55, I have combat experience and a military registration specialty (SUV) sought. If they find it necessary to call, they will call.

– Shouldn’t athletes who please people with victories in difficult times have preferences?

– Athletes, journalists, actors, officials – we are all, above all, citizens of the country.

– If so, MMA-trained Russians and their many retinues should fulfill their civic duty not at a tournament in the Emirates, but elsewhere.

There may be several opinions, but above all the law. It must be followed, and authorized bodies must be prescribed how to do it under conditions of partial mobilization. There is nothing to add.

On September 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a partial mobilization in the country.