"I was born Russian": the famous Olympic champion renounced Ukrainian citizenship

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Lillehammer 1994 Olympic champion Oksana Baiul decided to renounce Ukrainian citizenship in favor of the United States, since Ukrainian laws do not allow dual citizenship. At the same time, the champion expressed gratitude to everyone who expressed their reaction to her act.

Bayul published in her Instagram account photo portrait and accompanied her post with the appropriate inscription.

I thank everyone for everything. Born Russian, won gold for Ukraine, and die American

- noted Oksana Baiul, adding that she is not going to change the country of citizenship until the end of her life.

Many residents of Nezalezhnaya reacted negatively to Bayun's decision to prefer an American passport to a Ukrainian one. Honored Coach of Russia Tatyana Tarasova emphasized that the renunciation of citizenship is a personal matter of everyone, and Oksana Baiul has the right to decide for herself which country to accept citizenship.

The figure skater became the first Olympic champion of independent Ukraine when she was 16 years old. At the Olympics in Norway, she took first place, ahead of athletes from the United States and China in single skating. After winning the Games, Baiul left for the United States, and is currently coaching young skaters and raising a daughter.

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Kofesan

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23 August 2021 18: 41
Well done. It is necessary to have a certain fortitude so that, like this, with an open visor, in one phrase, to declare a whole layer, categorically unacceptable for her, the established order of things. And in Russia too. And even more so - disgust for the "square" with their Selyukov swagger around the Russian nationality. With the desire to alter everything more or less significant under the "ukrodostveniya".
Well, she doesn't even want to be called "Ukrainian". She's sick of them. Well done!

But she could easily (just by name) be on this "proud" list. After all, "not brothers" steal literally everything. Even nationality. Convincing themselves and others like them that they are always geniuses, and the "Muscovites" prevented them from declaring and becoming famous all over the world! Proof? Yes please:

Too lazy to look further. And the ukrovs also have a commemorative coin with "Buran" and "Energy", which they trade as a memory of "great Ukrainians".
123

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23 August 2021 19: 01

She just legalized the actual state. A person likes to live there, this is her right. She, like any other Rodchenkov's concerts, did not suit. Therefore, what their claims may be, I just do not understand. All the same, 30 years have passed, she left a completely different country.
If the great Russian tennis player Masha Sharapova changes her citizenship, will that surprise anyone?
Kim Rum Eun

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23 August 2021 19: 21

Oksana considered herself Orthodox until in 2003 she discovered her Jewish roots through her mother. Then, impressed by old rumors that her mother was Jewish, she tracked down her father, and he confirmed that it was true. When asked about this in 2005, Oksana replied: “Being Jewish is very cool. It's as natural as a second skin. " When she was engaged to a Jew, she said she was very excited when she discovered that they had the same faith with their betrothed. However, after parting with Yevgeny Sunik and returning to her homeland, Oksana poses in almost all photographs with an Orthodox cross around her neck, leaving the topic of her preferences in faith in question.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Баюл_Оксана_Сергеевна
Only one thing is clear to me - all this is a muddy turbidity of a bad color and smell, therefore there are absolutely no reasons for delight.
1. boriz
  
  -1
  
  24 August 2021 01: 51
  
  ... she said she was very excited when she discovered that she and her betrothed had the same faith.
  
  How can you accidentally discover VERA? Is that a mole on your butt?
  1. Kim Rum Eun
    
    +2
    
    24 August 2021 05: 53
    
    ...she said,
    
    This was said by Baiul, and your question should be addressed to her.
    
    If she was born in the USSR in 1977 and then became an orphan, and it is also necessary to take into account that she was an athlete with a special mentality, then I am not surprised that she confused the concepts of "faith" and "nationality".
    As you know, people of this ancient nationality in the USSR were heavily encrypted for a number of reasons.
    1. boriz
      
      -1
      
      24 August 2021 11: 52
      
      So the question is not for you. He's rhetorical.
Observer2014

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23 August 2021 20: 41

1994 Lillehammer Olympic champion Oksana Baiul decided to renounce Ukrainian citizenship in favor of the United States,

Well done! It's high time it was if there was such an opportunity to do it.
1. Kofesan
  
  -1
  
  23 August 2021 21: 12
  
  And who wants to live in a country where
  
  According to official information, in the last month alone, about 2000 people have lost their jobs in the entire territory from Uzhgorod to Sloviansk due to unwillingness or inability to communicate in Ukrainian.
  
  https://riafan.ru/1508201-molchanie-zoloto-na-ukraine-nachalis-massovye-uvolneniya-russkogovoryashikh-grazhdan
  
  There were Russian = half. Where have you gone?
  1. Kim Rum Eun
    
    +3
    
    24 August 2021 05: 59
    
    And who wants to live in the country
    
    Specifically, Baiul has not lived in that country since the mid-90s.
    
    And what riafan reports should be sifted through the sieve of other media.
Binder

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23 August 2021 21: 15

It is not clear to me why the laws of Ukraine prohibit its citizens from having a second citizenship, in all normal states there are no questions about this, I know from my own experience, having dual citizenship of Israel and the United States, I have never encountered anything negative for this reason. And I also know a lot of immigrants from Ukraine who have lived abroad for many years, who have foreign citizenship and at the same time retain the citizenship of Ukraine. There they are simply registered as Ukrainian citizens permanently residing abroad, everyone understands everything, but they do not make problems out of it. Here, apparently, the lady has some kind of interest of her own in spreading information about the renunciation of Ukrainian citizenship.
1. Adler77
  
  +3
  
  23 August 2021 23: 29
  
  Of course, PR and HYIP, I remembered about Russianness, although Russian was never ... Soviet ...
  Wants an interviewer for money.
2. boriz
  
  -1
  
  24 August 2021 01: 48
  
  ... in all normal states there are no questions about this, ...
  
  Keyword: normal, and here we are talking about Ukraine, so ...
steelmaker

0

23 August 2021 21: 29

Two workers are cleaning up the rubbish. One with a shovel is straining, the other drove up on a tractor, scooped up and took away all the garbage with a bucket. Both workers, both of the 5th grade, work at the same enterprise, but the one with a shovel receives a salary of 15 thousand rubles. more. "Why don't you value qualified people?" - I asked the head of the shop when I quit. 3-4 people remained in the workshop. who can replace me, but for 30-40 thousand rubles they will not go to work in my place. And so everywhere and in everything, throughout Russia.

Russia has already accepted millions of unskilled workers. And left in 2019 (according to Infotables.ru) - 416 people. Of these, 131 thousand have higher education. And if part of the total figure will return, then it is unlikely from the second.

https://zen.yandex.ru/media/id/5f7dd6cc2c89770d8a986f50/proisshestvie-v-kuzminkah-ili-dobro-pojalovat-v-srednie-veka-60f15ab972494866a9f2afcb?&utm_campaign=dbr
According to the Constitution, Articles 15,17,18, power in Russia comes from outside, and our president coordinates the execution of all instructions from outside. And what we accepted was about "zeroing", and only zeroing. Russia, as a colony of the United States, has remained. Those who are literate understand this, and that is why they leave. It is necessary to condemn the authorities, which have long been entrenched in NATO countries.
1. Adler77
  
  0
  
  23 August 2021 23: 31
  
  Spade cannot get more tractor driver
2. General Black
  
  +1
  
  24 August 2021 09: 24
  
  And what did the head of the shop say to you?
  1. steelmaker
    
    +1
    
    24 August 2021 12: 07
    
    At my workplace, the salary has been raised to 54 thousand rubles since August. common. If it had not been raised, in a year there will be no one to work. He just equaled the salary with the uneducated. But retirees will do. Young people will not go, this is not a tractor, you have to know and work a lot.
Adler77

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23 August 2021 23: 35

We are gussies ... bhahaha
Oksana considered herself Orthodox until in 2003 she discovered her Jewish roots through her mother. Then, impressed by old rumors that her mother was Jewish, she tracked down her father, and he confirmed that it was true. When asked about this in 2005, Oksana replied: “Being Jewish is very cool. It's as natural as a second skin. "

Here is such a Russian
Alexander Ivanov

+1

24 August 2021 08: 58

Citizenship is in the monarchy. It means it is not everywhere. "Oksana Baiul has the right to decide for herself which country to accept citizenship" - it was necessary to write more broadly. ... the citizenship of which country ...
zimzinov

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24 August 2021 13: 22

It's a pity that I didn't go to Russia, but congratulations anyway. Breaking up with this 404 country is the right decision.
1. Bitter
  
  0
  
  24 August 2021 20: 53
  
  Well, he is trying to throw fishing rods from afar. It looks like he will soon go to a coaching job to get a job. With American citizenship in Russian business, it is probably a little easier to "spin".
Petr Vladimirovich

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24 August 2021 14: 36

Do you want, friends, as always from life. The Hobby Forum has a colleague in every sense. I learned Hungarian at the VAVT, and this is a very difficult language, worked at the Trade Representation, when the collapse began, it moved to the Hungarian-German joint venture.
He stayed and received citizenship. He makes amazing models of Soviet planes of the Great Patriotic War with his own hands, every year he comes with them to the festival in Staritsa. An intelligent, handy, intelligent person.
1. Petr Vladimirovich
  
  -5
  
  24 August 2021 14: 46
  
  And there is one. Car locksmith, left for Green Card in the USA. Success by any measure is very modest, it does not fly, but then there is an immense amount of anger.
  In every post on the branch of the glade, where he flew here
  Yes, you have universal corruption, widespread drunkenness, the Chinese have occupied half of Siberia
  And this is in all seriousness ...
  1. Bitter
    
    -1
    
    27 August 2021 10: 18
    
    Probably if this car mechanic "worked" in the trade mission in America. Then he would also become a quite respected person, but ... something did not grow together. Maybe he did not study well at school, or maybe there were not enough connections. By the way, what kind of "models" he does you have not covered, as well as what views "from the side" has a rugged Hungarian-German colleague. It turned out that one who had left officially on the "green card" was almost a traitor, and the other, simply using his official position, got in advance and stayed - a respected person. The look at both "dissidents" was made from completely opposite angles.
  2. Petr Vladimirovich
    
    -4
    
    27 August 2021 16: 44
    
    As many as three tramp repatriates checked in, I'm flattered