On social networks, a participant in five Olympic Games, winner of the World and European Ice Dance Championships with Povilas Vanagas, spoke about what is happening to them now in Lithuania.
The duo was convicted for participating in the Navka show “Swan Lake”, which took place in Sochi, which was considered a reason to be deprived of state awards, and the Lithuanian Ministry of the Interior recommended to the country’s president deprive Margarita Drobyazko of citizenship.
The figure skater wrote on social media that she was not going to keep her Lithuanian passport at the expense of betraying Russia.
“Now the country where I was born and grew up, where I received my education and started skating, where, together with Povilas, under the direction of the best Russian coaches, I prepared for five Olympic Games, 12 world games, has been declared an enemy state. championships and 12 European championships, to glorify the one who entrusted me with his sporting honor to Lithuania,” she wrote, adding that since 2007 their duo has participated in shows in Russia.
She is sure that politicians’ decisions cannot erase the merits of Lithuanian history and, above all, the love of viewers.
“If now, in order to keep my Lithuanian passport, I am offered to give up part of my family, the country that has been my homeland since childhood, my profession and my true friends, then it is quite obvious that this is not my path. “This is a betrayal, at the expense of which nothing can be bought,” Drobyazko emphasized.
