The commander of the Russian Army and well-known international athlete Yelena Isinbayeva, sanctioned by the President of Ukraine Volodimir Zelensky Due to his links with the Russian military regime, he arrived in the Canary Islands on May 30 on a freight plane from Turkey that legally entered the airport in the south of Tenerife. Since then she has lived with her husband, Nikita Petinovand their two children, Eve and Dobrynya, in a luxury residential in Arona. It must be remembered that Isinbáyeva was awarded the Prince of Asturias award in 2009 [hoy Princesa de Asturias] in sports mode.
This was announced yesterday by Digital del Sur, which also made public several photos in which the Olympic athlete could be seen walking through the streets of southern Tenerife. The National Police He has reported this information to the central headquarters in Madrid, so that they know his current whereabouts, since, until a few months ago, he was unknown.
Yelena Isinbáyeva, (Volgograd, Russia, 1982) not only has behind her a long and fruitful career as an Olympic athlete, but she has also maintained an important participation in the country’s military policy. In 2015 she was promoted and decorated as Commander (or Major) of the Russian Army. The Ministry of Defense decided to distinguish the double Olympic champion and world record holder for the sporting successes he had achieved throughout his career. Isinbayeva is reportedly currently active as an officer in the Russian Defense Ministry, although there are doubts about the latter. In the latest statements by the IOC spokesman, Mark Adams, collected in gazeta.ru, she neither affirms nor denies it.
Isinbáyeva is an athlete specialized in pole vaulting, Olympic, world and European champion of this event. She has broken the women’s pole vault world record a total of 28 times, 15 outdoors and 13 indoors. Holds the outdoor (5.06 m), Olympic (5.05 m) and World Championships (5.01 m) pole vault world records.. In fact, many consider her one of the best pole vaulters in history.
The athlete has been sanctioned for her close relationship with Putin and Russian military troops
At the beginning of his career he already stood out in his first competition, reaching 3.50 meters. In 1998 he attended the Junior World Championship, in Annecy (France) where he jumped 4 meters. Her first gold medal came at the 1999 World Youth Games in bydgoszcz (Poland), where he reached 4.10 meters.
His first great sporting successes came in 2002. The silver medal achieved at the European Championships in Munich was joined by the gold medal at the National Championship of his country on indoor and outdoor tracks. She broke the world record for the first time in a sporting event in Gateshead (United Kingdom) with a jump of 4.82 metres, which made her the favorite for the World Athletics Championships that year. In 2004, 2005 and 2008 the International Athletics Foundation (IAAF) elected her world athlete of the year and in 2007 and 2009 she was distinguished with her ethe Laureus Award to the best athlete of the previous season.
The invasion takes its toll
Despite his retirement, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has taken its toll on him. On February 27, 2023, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, imposed sanctions against 164 individuals and 85 legal entities of the Russian Federation for “supporting a large-scale Russian invasion of the country”, approving the corresponding decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC). On the list were several Russian athletes belonging to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), including Isinbáyeva. According to Zelenski, the athlete was part of the “representatives of the Russian sports sector who try to put sport at the service of aggression.”
This sanction has caused the Russian military and athlete to have since been banned from entering Ukraine and that all her assets have been confiscated by the Ukrainian government. The athlete faced a verification process by Ethics, but this June 23, 2023the process jumped in his favor allowing him to continue on the Olympic committee.
Your relationship with Vladimir PutinPresident of Russia, comes from afar. In 2012, she became her confidant in the presidential election and in November 2017, she joined the movement. putin team . In January 2020, Isinbáyeva was included in the working group on reforms to the Russian Constitution to allow Putin to remain in power indefinitely. Putin Team is a social movement announced in 2017 by the NHL player Alexander Ovechkin to support Russian President Vladimir Putin and his 2018 Russian presidential campaign.
The athlete has been included in the working group that has reformed the Russian constitution
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On different occasions he has shown himself in favor of exalting the Russian national spirit and champions the memory of Russian history. In fact, in a post on his social networks on February 20, 2018, he published the following comment: “Dear Yunarmists! This week there will be an important event for the entire Yunarmey family. 8,000 participants from all over Russia will gather to participate in 11 educational and interactive platformsyes“. “The Yunarmiya movement is ready to become a unifying platform for hundreds of thousands of young people to help everyone show their talents and fulfill themselves. unite!”
The movement he was referring to is the All-Russian National Military Patriotic Social Movement Association of the All-Russian “Young Army”, which is sometimes transliterated as Yunarmiya, YAM. This Russian youth organization founded in October 2015. It is supported and financed by the Ministry of Defense of Russia (MOD) with the mission to train the future personnel of the Russian uniformed services and to instill the values of patriotism, national service, national and military history, the memory of past military operations and campaigns and the fallen of their armed forces, and to help develop the country as its population grows.
The objectives of the Young Army Movement are to improve state policy in the field of education of the younger generation, to create a favorable environment for the harmonious development of the personality of children and youth, the formation of values and moral guidelines, as well as education on military issues and patriotic.
Independent journalist and analyst Sergei Shelin, In an article published on June 14, 2023 in the Russian Post, he stressed that “Isinbayeva is one of the most hateful praisers of Putin and all his exploits. The entire biography of her makes the point that insensitivity and cynicism are not seen as bad things in Russia ».
