St. Petersburg, July 4, Taras Barabash. Honored Coach of the USSR in figure skating Tatyana Tarasova said she was very upset with how events are developing in the case of hockey player Ivan Fedotov. On Friday, the media reported that Fedotov was detained in St. Petersburg by the military enlistment office. On Sunday, the goalkeeper's lawyer Alexei Ponomarev said that his client was sent, presumably, to Severomorsk, but there was no connection with him. On Monday, a number of media outlets, citing sources, reported that the athlete was in Severodvinsk.
"I was in Severodvinsk. This is scary. There are submarines. In the Navy, you always had to serve a year more. Oh my god what did they do to him. I know he wanted to go to the NHL. He will not leave for the NHL already, this is understandable. I shouldn't have told this to anyone. Very hard, I was upset for the guy. But nothing, during the service he will become more powerful and healthier. He just doesn't need to go anywhere. I’m very upset,” Tarasova said. On Monday, a source in the Northern Fleet said that the goalkeeper is in the training unit of the Russian Navy, but he is not in the Northern Fleet. Another source noted that the cause of Fedotov's problems with military service was a conflict with representatives of CSKA, which the player stands for. The hockey player's lawyer said that he had applied to the military prosecutor's office with a demand to recognize the decision of the draft board as illegal.