Why all outraged the volleyball player Alexei Spiridonov

The athlete insulted the activist Olga Borisova and is not going to apologize

The volleyball player Alexei Spiridonov, known for his shocking behavior, insulted the activist Olga Borisova on Twitter: he in rude form invited her to provide him with sexual services. Popular bloggers - both independent and procting. "Medusa" tells what happened-and whether this story will have any consequences.

The answer to the Cheburek

On May 12, one of the creators of the Pussy Riot Theater project, the former Open Russia activist Olga Borisova, on her Twitter, asked subscribers the question of where to buy a delicious Cheburek. The tennis player Evgeny Kafelnikov reacted to the tweet, who wrote that such Chebureks have in the country of his friend - volleyball player of the Russian team and player of the Yenisei Krasnoyarsk club Alexei Spiridonov; Kafelnikov also noted in the commentary of Spiridonov himself. In response to this, Borisova recalled that the athlete has a wife, after which Spiridonov himself appeared in the thread. “Do you want to suck on Leninsky Prospekt? - asked the volleyball player with Borisova and added: "Or is it better to paint you for two?"

Many subscribers of Olga Borisova were outraged by the offensive behavior of the athlete; A verbal skirmish began between the fans of Spiridonov and those who sided with Borisova. As Olga Borisova told Medusa, the matter was not limited to public insults and hints of sexual nature - Spiridonov began to write obscene insults and threats in personal messages. In response to this, the girl sent on Instagram to the wife of Spiridonov Ekaterina (since she was not registered on Twitter) screenshots with her wife's statements. According to Borisova, Ekaterina Spiridonova reacted to this to emoticons.

What are Olga Borisova and Alexei Spiridonov

28-year-old volleyball player Alexei Spiridonov is one of the most scandalous Russian athletes. In 2011, he was expelled for repeated violations of discipline for six months from the national team and the club. In 2013, a conflict occurred between the volleyball player and the Fakela players: the volleyball players claimed that Spiridonov sprayed a “poisonous saliva” in them. The head coach of the Brazilian national team Bernardino, after the match of the “finals of the six” of the World League, publicly called him crazy. In 2014, at the World Cup in Poland, Spiridonov “shot” local spectators from an imaginary machine gun after the ball won, and then began to mock the Poles in all his accounts. In the same year, Spiridonov, during the match, spat in the face of a Pole, shouting “Return Crimea!”

Olga Borisova used to work in the human rights project “Help Political Plane” “Open Russia” by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, where, among other things, she was engaged in the organization of auctions to help prison prisoners. One of the famous actions in which she took part is “FSIN - it will hurt” ; In it, Borisova protested against the law allowing the application of physical force to prisoners. She also went out with a picket against the ban on abortion: the activist stood with the poster “My ***** [Vagina] - my business. Do not climb into your body ”at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.

Now Borisova edits the book "Riot Days", the story of the member of the group of Maria Alekhina; The book should be published in September 2017 in New York, Paris and London. Borisova is also engaged in the Pussy Riot Theater: Riot Days project (Alekhina’s book based on the book), which the team acts in the United States and in the future plans a tour of Europe and Australia.

Olga Borisova told Medusa that this is not her first conflict with Spiridonov and Kafelnikov, with whom they are not familiar in reality. According to her, over the past three months, tiles regularly commented on her tweets and photographs, each time inviting Spiridonov to the discussion. “For the reasons for the reasons, the tiles took up my wall on Twitter with a trolling matchmaking of me and Spiridonov,” Borisova explains. - Repeatedly after I published my photo, Kafelnikov noted below Spiridonov with the words: “Well, take this ourselves this?” - Often using obscene vocabulary. When I tried to pull both men, reminding them that they had wives, they began to openly angry and expressed it, of course, with rude expressions right on my wall. ”

Borisova notes that he stands for freedom of speech and does not consider it permissible to prohibit any statements. That is why she preferred not to complain about the athletes to the moderators of the social network and did not block access to their page. “But when Spiridonov and tiles began to behave frankly in a prickly, I decided that it was enough to endure it, and turned to the public for the support of the public, with the help of popular censure, to force Spiridonov to think about the fact that he is still a player of the Russian team, receives money from the state and is an example to follow his fans,” Borisov explains.

In support of Olga Borisova, a variety of people performed. In particular, the activist and co -founder of the “W: Women Mutual Assistance Network” Alena Popova wrote : “I think Alexey should leave the sport in principle. A person who does not respect the rights of women, and women in Russia are a demographic majority, simply has neither moral nor other right to represent our country. ” The blogger and founder of the Image Border Nariman Namazov tried to personally talk with Spiridonov, but the volleyball player immediately put him in the blacklist; Journalist Oleg Kashin commented on the situation on his Facebook page, calling what was happening "horror."

Olga Borisova was also a member of the Public Chamber, a former press secretary of the Nashi and Rosmolodezh, Christina Poddchik-she sent a petition to the World Volleyball Federation (VFV) and the leadership of the Yenisei volleyball club. The ditch asks Spiridonov to disqualify until he brings Borisova a public apology, explaining that rudeness must be stopped by public censure, and not “complaints to the prosecutor”. Borisov was also supported by Dmitry Enteo, known as the “Orthodox activist”: “How do you talk to our sister? Do you ask her forgiveness? We must meet, talk like a man. ”

Will there be something for Spiridonov for this

Olga Borisova said that she was waiting for public apologies from Spiridonov, but did not intend to seek his exclusion from the Russian team and from the Yenisei team - and even more so is not going to submit an application to law enforcement agencies for insult.

Nevertheless, the ability to disqualify an athlete for ethical reasons exists. On the website of the All -Russian Volleyball Federation (VFV), the “Regulations of the organization and conduct of the Russian and cups of Russia and the Russian volleyball championships, the design of licenses, transitions, transfer certificates” (VFV regulations), which says that for violation of ethical and sports standards of behavior, the player threatens or disqualification of up to two years, or a fine of up to two years. 5300 rubles, either the deprivation of the awards provided for by the VFV regulations, or the disqualification of up to five games. The Charter of the VFV argues that the purpose of such measures is “the struggle for moral purity in sports”.

However, the press attaches of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation Vladimir Stetskoy informed Medusa that Spiridonov was not already declared to participate in the Russian team’s game in 2017 “for sports reasons”, and the disqualification of the volleyball player from the Yenisei club is possible only if certain rules of behavior were registered in the contract. “What a sin to hide, all of Russia feeds on the expressive statements of Spiridonov and it is in anticipation of them that he enters his twitter,” says Stetsko. “Besides, I don’t even know who really offended anyone there.” After all, the point is not only that one person offends, but also that the other lends itself to provocations. I do not exclude that Borisova is simply PR due to the famous volleyball player. ”

The deputy general director of the VFV Mikhail Landozhny is also not sure that the athlete’s opponents will be able to achieve his disqualification. “Of course, this is far from the first such incident with the participation of Spiridonov. But the volleyball community cannot fully give an assessment of Spiridonov’s actions outside the volleyball court, especially in the space of the Internet, and influence it, ”the Landby explained. “First of all, the authorities must be punished.”

Spiridonov himself does not fear that this conflict will negatively affect his sports career, and says that he had previously had many situations of this kind - and that the quarrel that happened between him and Borisova, the most “light” of all. “I personally do not know Borisova and don’t know who she is,” Spiridonov said in the commentary of Medusa. - I wrote to her just to make a joke, and she decided to arrange a self -patient out of this open place. There is no talk of apologies for her on my part. ”

Update. The material gives Olga Borisova that she sent screenshots of correspondence with Alexei Spiridonov his wife Catherine. Olga Borisova clarified that in fact the screenshots were sent by her friend Sonya Grase.

Irina Kravtsova