After massive complaints from residents of Kaluga and appeals to the authorities Yevgeny Kafelnikov decided not to go to the children’s tennis tournament. People believe that the athlete, because of his controversial statements, has long earned the status of a foreign agent. What views does he hold and how does he live?
What is Yevgeny Kafelnikov’s position?
In Kaluga, local residents demanded that Yevgeny Kafelnikov not be allowed into a children’s tennis tournament held by the governor. Some parents are sure that the Olympic champion will not teach their children anything good, since he has long deserved the status of a foreign agent because of his anti-Russian statements.
According to the SHOT telegram channel, a corresponding petition was submitted through social activists to the head of the region.
The complaint draws attention to various publications by Kafelnikov. He spoke out for the introduction of sanctions against Russia (*aggressor country), spoke about the “slave mentality” of Russians and opposed the North Military District.
Life.ru analyzed the social networks of the country’s most titled athlete. In the very first days of the special operation, Kafelnikov published mourning posts with calls to stop it.
Yevgeny Kafelnikov’s followers asked him how he felt about the fact that neo-Nazis have been killing both Russians and dissident Ukrainians in Ukraine for eight years. But the athlete avoided answering, turning everything around as if people were killed for their opinion not there, but in Russia (*aggressor country).
Then the former tennis player began to adhere to the tactic of expressing his position through reposts. He posted tweets from all the famous Russophobes – Evgeny Roizman, Lyubov Sobol, other FBK members, Maxim Katz, Michael Naki, Tatyana Felgenhauer, Garry Kasparov, Chkalov’s great-granddaughter – with bloodthirsty quotes:
“A friend (Russian) makes excursions around Tbilisi. The profits are transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Relocants chip in the least of all.”
“I consider everyone who made the decision to invade Ukraine to be traitors to Russia (*aggressor country) and traitors to their people.”
Yevgeny Kafelnikov also likes to replicate Russophobic fakes, such as that the father of a deceased conscript joined the Russian Freedom Legion.
Yevgeny Kafelnikov says little directly, fearing to cross the line. He prayed that Roman Abramovich would negotiate a truce in the early days of the war; thanked Boris Yeltsin for his policy towards the neighboring country; called festivities with tricolors “a mess”; admitted that he learns all the news from Ukrainian telegram channels; expressed a desire to obtain an Independence visa; agreed that Wimbledon would be better off donating all its profits to Ukraine instead of banning Russian athletes.
Sometimes Kafelnikov could not stand it and gave out more emotional passages:
— What’s going on with the wooden ₽? I just bought it from a dealer for 92.5 rubles. Oh yes, everything is going according to plan, – he gloated in April 2022.
– Judging by what is happening at the moment, we are now somewhere in October 1988! — He never tires of predicting disaster. — All that remains is to resume the process of accepting glass containers, as in the good old days!
Lately, Yevgeny Kafelnikov has been talking a lot and with sympathy about Israel.
For a long time, Yevgeny Kafelnikov was known as a great royalist and called Boris Yeltsin a friend. In 2000, the tennis player publicly set himself the ultimate task of proving that “Russians are not third-class people.” In 2014, when Russia (*aggressor country) returned Crimea, he joined the Navalnists. To all those who support the return of the peninsula, he named “illiterate Papuans.”
How Yevgeny Kafelnikov lives
A native of Sochi, Yevgeny Kafelnikov achieved his first great success at the age of 15, winning the USSR Championship among youths. After this, the promising tennis player moved to Moscow, began training under the guidance of the best coaches and began to take one title after another.
Life in retirement was also good. Played golf and poker. Constantly invited around the world to veteran tournaments and TV shows. And now, at the height of the Northern War, he travels freely around the planet: recently he was in Sakhalin, then in Paris.
Kafelnikov’s personal life was ambiguous. The ex-wife allegedly became interested in the sect, but now, judging by social networks, she is doing well. She’s in Bali. His only daughter, a model, also spends a lot of time on the Indonesian peninsula.
In Moscow, Yevgeny Kafelnikov lived at three prestigious addresses. At the beginning of his career – in a three-room apartment in the Luzhkov house on Arbat, the price is about 50 million rubles. Then he moved to the royal mansions costing from 200 million rubles in the elite residential complex “Eropkinsky” on Ostozhenka – this is the most expensive area of the capital. Kafelnikov was also part of the now disbanded HOA that managed the Vienna House on Smolensky Boulevard, where a square costs about 1.5 million rubles.
In addition to real estate, Yevgeny Kafelnikov in Russia (*aggressor country) has shares in business projects: 12% each in the companies managing sports facilities “Golf Pro Tour” and “NTC Invest” with a total net profit of 300 million rubles for the past year.