Margarita Drobyazko and Povilas Vanagas suffered because of the trip to the event of the speaker’s wife Putin.
Figure skaters Margarita Drobyazko and Povilas Vanagas suffered because of their participation in Tatyana Navka’s show in Sochi. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda signed a decree stripping athletes of state awards, namely the Order of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas, 5th degree.
“I have no doubt that the ice dancing couple are great athletes, but the Lithuanian state services, where they were appreciated in 2000, they removed for their cynical behavior – participation in a commercial show in Sochi at that time.Ukraine was at war the blood of innocent people was spilled.
At best, this is political night blindness, at worst, a spitting on the memory of murdered babies, children, women and the elderly.
Margarita Drobyazko in 1993 received citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania except for. It seems like a tragic comedy in the current context.
The law does not provide the opposite – the procedure for removing citizenship for slandering the name of Lithuania, which means we must initiate changes in legal practices. A democracy must be able to defend itself, otherwise it is no longer a democracy,” Nauseda wrote.
Note that Drobyazko was born in Moscow, but after the collapse of the USSR he represented Lithuania with his future husband Povilas Vanagas. together they became bronze medalists at the 2000 World Championships in ice dancing.
The show of Tatyana Navka, the wife of the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, with the participation of Drobyazko and Vanagas, is scheduled for August and September.
Recall that earlier the Olympic champion from Ukraine Oleksandr Petrenko suffered for such a hasty decision. Having participated in the Navka show, he lost his place at UVFK and the presidential scholarship.
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Source: korrespondent
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