MOSCOW, July 16, Alexander Govorov. to Russian athletes is not the most urgent task for the country, noted in a conversation with the honorary president of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Vyacheslav Koloskov. Earlier, Roman Teryushkov, a member of the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture and Sports, expressed the opinion in his Telegram channel, according to which the change of sports citizenship by an athlete the national team of the country should be equated with an act of treason. «Not only athletes change citizenship in our country, but also artists, journalists, scientists. Are they all enemies of the people? Such a selective approach is unacceptable. If something like this happens, it will be connected with exceptional circumstances. And these will be isolated cases. So far, we have not seen this and are unlikely to see it. I do not think that this is such a topical issue that State Duma deputies should deal with. I believe that there are more more significant tasks for the country. Including support for athletes. We need to think not about how to look for traitors, but to create conditions for the development of mass sports,» Koloskov said.
