Zakharova said about the apartment as a gift expelled from the Paralympics, Belarusian – RBC

Official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova

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Official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that the Belarusian expelled from the Paralympics in Rio for a demonstration of the Russian flag, are going to give the apartment

As Zakharova said in his Facebook, she was asked by a friend of a friend who wanted to give the apartment to Belarusian Andrei Fomochkin, which carried the Russian flag at the opening of the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. The official representative of the Russian foreign Ministry said her companion, “admired the act of the Belarusian” and he wanted to make him a gift.

According to Zakharova, she personally checked and found out that the “real apartment in the finished house.” The name of the giver, the diplomat promised to reveal the next day.

Fomochkin – official of the Ministry of sports of Belarus. The decision to put the Russian flag at the opening of the Paralympics, he explained the solidarity with Russian athletes, which was not allowed in competitions because of doping charges.

After the opening ceremony, Fomochkin was deprived of accreditation, and left Brazil.

Later, the press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov described the actions Fomochkina “act worthy of admiration”, and Zakharova called him a hero. “Such things are not forgotten. This is the real human thing,” she said at the official briefing of the foreign Ministry of the country.