MOSCOW, May 3. Turkish volleyball player of Kaliningrad “Lokomotiv” Ebrard Karakurt, who was accused in April of LGBT* propaganda by the 2000 Olympic silver medalist Elena Godina, was recognized as the most valuable player (MVP) of the completed season of the Russian championship, according to the official Telegram channel of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation.
Karakurt, together with Lokomotiv, received silver medals in the national championship, losing in the final series to Dynamo Kazan with a total score of 0-3. The head of the Kazan team, Zoran Terzic, was recognized as the best coach of the season. The best libero was Valeria Perova from Leningradka, who took bronze at the Russian Championship.
One volleyball player from the champions, blocker Angelina Lazarenko, was included in the symbolic team of the season. Karakurt’s partner at Lokomotiv, Irina Filishtinskaya, was in the position of setter; the symbolic team also included two volleyball players from Dynamo Moscow, Victoria Pushina (blocker) and Irina Kapustina (player); Svetlana Gatina from Saratov Proton was chosen for another position of playmaker. .
Lokomotiv defeated Dynamo Moscow in the semi-final playoff series with a score of 3-2. After the decisive match of the series, a column by former Blue and White team player Godina was published on the capital club’s website, in which she criticized the behavior of the Lokomotiv players, including accusing them of “simulating sexual intercourse,” “same-sex kisses on the lips and other abominations.” «.
Godina’s column also included footage of the broadcast, in one of which Karakurt kisses Yulia Brovkina on the cheek, and in the other he lifts her into his arms. The website also published photographs from a costume party, in which a representative of Turkey was dressed and made up as the Joker character from the film “Suicide Squad,” and Brovkina reincarnated as Harley Quinn from the same film.
* Extremist organization, banned in Russia