Daria Kasatkina, Russian player who has recently come out, has repeatedly expressed her opposition to Putin’s government. This stance of yours has not been taken well by the institutions, which have begun to respond to these demonstrations.
Roman Teryushkov, a deputy of the Duma, the Russian Parliament, has sent a letter to the Ministry of Justice in which he requests that some of them, including the Russian tennis player, be added to the list of foreign agents: he confirmed this in an interview at RB Sports.
Daria Kasatkina threatened by a Russian politician
The definition of foreign agents is something that comes very close to that of dissidents: economic restrictions, such as being screened or shutting down their websites.
The reason why the Russian became the subject of Teryushkov’s requests lies in an interview the deputy gave months ago, as carried by sports.ru. Kasatkina herself said: “Kasatkina, Karen Khachanov, Yevgeny Kafelnikov openly criticize the actions of the Russian authorities, who permanently reside outside the territory of the Russian Federation, act in a neutral state, demonstrate to the whole world and distance themselves from the NWO and Russian society.
Their actions fall under the Foreign Agents Act.” In fact, Kafelnikov and above all Karen Khachanov, semifinalist of this edition of the US Open, are also included in this list.
Ukrainian war and its effect on tennis players
The war in Ukraine shook the world and tennis, like many aspects, was also influenced by the events that developed in Eastern Europe.
Russian and Belarusian men and women no longer compete under the Russian flag, they have been excluded from national competitions and, above all, they have been excluded from the last edition of Wimbledon. Some of them preferred not to expose themselves, while others said or did something to show their displeasure with Russia’s actions. Rublev wrote and said messages of peace: from Dubai at the beginning of the season to the last tournament in Turin.
