Krikunov explained the scandal around Indrashis and Spartak with “pressure from Latvia”

MOSCOW, July 25, Pavel Levkovich. Latvian striker Miks Indrashis would be happy play in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), but pressure from Latvia forced him to withdraw from his contract with Spartak, Russia's merited coach Vladimir Krikunov said. «I would love to play in Russia, I would come here with pleasure. He studied at a Russian school, speaks Russian and can write. Mix has been playing with us for the last three or four years. He would go if he hadn't been under tremendous pressure from Latvia. How should the FHR and the KHL react? I'll say this, the player is not to blame. It's all politics, that's how they interfere. They wring the sport and the athletes themselves with their hands, feet and head,» Krikunov said. At the end of June, Spartak Moscow announced the signing contract with Indrasis for one year. After that, the Secretary General of the Latvian Ice Hockey Federation, Roberts Pluzejs, said that the forward could stop being invited to the national team. Then Indrashis called untrue information about the contract with Spartak. Later, the club noted that if the player decides not to fulfill the terms of the contract, he must pay compensation to the “red-whites” in accordance with the KHL regulations.