Alexander Ovechkin used his fame to back Putin. We must remember that
from The Globe and Mail — Hockey,
Vladimir Putin’s imperialist war of aggression and domestic political repression has received a celebrity endorsement from Alexander Ovechkin, the NHL’s all-time leading goal scorer and captain of the Washington Capitals.
In early September, Mr. Ovechkin appeared in a political campaign video for Mr. Putin’s United Russia party ahead of Russian parliamentary “elections,” with some of the most powerful figures in the Putin regime, including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and leading Kremlin propagandist Margarita Simonyan.
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