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Marat explains why he got into politics.
Via ESPN: Ex-world No. 1 Safin elected into Russian Parliament
The two-time grand slam winner, who retired from the sport in 2009, is a member of Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party and has won a seat in the Duma’s lower house as a representative for the Nyzhny Novgorod region, which is roughly located 500km from Moscow.
Read the entire article here. Congratulations Marat! He may be a pretty face but we all know that he’s got a lot going up there as well, I’m personally excited for this new chapter in his life :)
Marat Safin & Shamil Tarpischev in Sitec-Dinamo.
He speaks a minute into the video, it’s in lovely Russian though!
This, much better!
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