American boxer Roy Jones met in Crimea with Vladimir Putin and asked him Russian citizenship. According to the sportsman, he needed a passport to do business in Russia. The President promised to fulfill the request.
The regiment who asks Vladimir Putin’s Russian citizenship, arrived. About which has recently become fashionable intention announced American boxer Roy Jones Jr. – former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, which is still in the 46 years enters the ring.
Jones voiced his request at a meeting with Russian President in Sevastopol. In Crimea athlete arrived for participation in the boxing show “Battle at Mount Gasfort”, which will take place August 23.
Putin and Jones started a conversation with the sport – the ex-world champion in four weight classes admitted that as a child wanted to do judo, as well as Russia’s president. Putin said in response to his first steps in the sport.
«I was 14. I liked the fight, and I started our domestic sport – sambo, and then from Sambo joined the judo” – quoted the head of state Tass.
Next, Jones told that he was going to do business in Russia and to do so he would not hurt a second passport after the US.
«I’m actually behind this and came. I think that if I, for example, was a Russian passport, I would be much easier to go back and forth because people here love sports, so I love this place, “- said the boxer.
«If you are a large part of his life going to be associated with operating in Russia, of course we will be glad and happy to fulfill your request about getting Russian citizenship, “- said Putin, to whom such requests from foreigners had to listen to more than once.
The Russian president also expressed hope that Jones will help strengthen relations with the United States, seriously injured after the Crimea to Russia.
«We have at all times, in different ways were the relations, but when demanded by the supreme interests and America, and Russia, we always found the strength to build relations in the best possible way.
And if people like you, will create additional conditions for building relationships, not only on the interstate, but also on a human level, it will create the necessary conditions “, – Jones heard from Putin.
Earlier, asking Putin to assist in obtaining Russian citizenship turned MMA fighter Ukrainian Alexey Oleinik. His devotion to Russia and its president, he has already demonstrated in front of the prestigious championship fight UFC, when he appeared in public in football with Putin.
is ready to become a Russian citizen and an American fighter Jeff Monson mixed styles. Two years ago, the first time he spoke about how he wants to swear allegiance to the Russian tricolor. This summer, the case moved from the dead point – to help in obtaining a passport from the double-headed eagle volunteered Vladimir Zhirinovsky, whose party Monson even managed to start.
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