Vladimir Putin fingers flowers to Alina Kabayeva after awarding her with an Order of Friendship.
Because the battle in Ukraine intensifies in Ukraine, a petition has been launched on change.org, which targets a former gymnast claiming she is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “lover”. The petitioners, from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, are demanding that Switzerland expels the girl amid claims she is hiding along with her three kids in a luxurious villa.
The previous gymnast in query is 38-year-old Alina Kabaeva, an Olympic gold medalist. A number of publications, like The Guardian, have claimed that Kabaeva is Putin’s girlfriend. The Russian President has, nevertheless, by no means formally recognised her.
The petition has acquired greater than 50,000 signatures since being posted.
“It is time you reunite Eva Braun along with her Führer,” the strongly-worded petition stated.
“Regardless of the present battle, Switzerland continues to host an confederate of Putin’s regime,” the petition additional stated. It has been posted in German, French and English.
The petition comes amid reviews that Kabaeva was despatched to Switzerland amid the battle in Ukraine.
Referred to as “Russia’s most versatile girl”, Kabaeva spent six years as a Member of Parliament representing Putin’s United Russia Get together.
She has been serving because the chairperson of the board of administrators at Nationwide Media Group, a serious pro-Kremlin media group, for greater than seven years. In keeping with The Daily Mail, she has been receiving a wage of virtually £8 million a 12 months.
Kabaeva isn’t seen in public. She was final captured on digital camera dancing on the Divine Grace Rhythmic Gymnastics Match in Moscow in December final 12 months.
Kabaeva gained gold within the 2004 Olympics for rhythmic gymnastics.
The petition on change.org says it’s uniting the individuals of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, which is presently present process immense struggling, to attraction to Swiss authorities.
“The general public has simply discovered that the Russian political and media determine, and former athlete, Alina Kabaeva, is hiding the implications of the sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation in YOUR nation.”
It additional says that for the primary time in fashionable historical past, Switzerland has violated its neutrality.
