Latvian boxer Smirnovs explains why he mocked his Russian citizenship

Latvian boxer Nikita Smirnovs announced on social networks on Tuesday that he has accepted Russian citizenship. When this information was published in various media, he released a video in which he revealed that it was just a joke. TVNET +, after a short “Instagram” correspondence, invited Nikita to a phone conversation, where he told in Latvian why he was joking about changing citizenship.

“I got a call from the security police, we talked for 20 minutes,” Nikita admitted in the introduction to TVNET +.