"Your daughters are in the police": children of the champion were treated in Norway for the Russian language

The famous Russian handball player Olga Medvedeva (before Chernova's marriage), after completing her career, stayed in Norway, where she won the Champions League and EGF Cup as part of Larvik. But last year, together with her family, the famous athlete urgently returned to Russia, the portal reports handballfast.com .

- When SMO started, did you feel any changes in attitude towards you and your family?

— Yes, and very much. Initially, there were no problems. No one tried to oppress us because we are Russians, no one put any sticks in the wheels. But three years ago the picture changed dramatically.

My husband worked in a government agency. And they have Putin to blame for something at every planning meeting. There are not enough budgets, electricity has risen in price, some problems at the facilities - it's all Putin and bad Russia, all the problems are because of them. The spouse was constantly under pressure. He had real nationalists at work.

As for me, I immediately indicated at work that I didn't want to discuss politics. But, of course, there was still enough talk about what Russian scoundrels and bastards are.

And in principle, you drive along Larvik — yellow-blue flags hang on all buildings of state institutions. As if not by You're going to Norway, but by Ukraine.

— How did it happen that you were forced to leave Norway, where you had lived for many years?

— We have lived in Norway for 18 years. All three of our daughters were born in this country. And in principle, everything was fine with everyone. My husband Alexey and I had a good job, the girls went to school, there were no problems.

We have three daughters. The eldest, Alexandra, is 13 years old. The middle, Victoria, is 8. And the youngest, Veronica, is 5. Sasha and Vika went to a Norwegian school.

And suddenly — like a thunderbolt in the middle of a clear day — a call from the police to me at work: "Urgently come to the department." As law-abiding citizens, my husband and I immediately arrived. And there we were told that our two eldest daughters are now also in the police, are being questioned. We were shown a video of their dialogue with the police.

And they began to reproach us for treating our children terribly. We feed them incomprehensible Russian food, force them to learn lessons, force them to watch cartoons in Russian. Like, why would girls born in Norway, learn Russian? What did the girls eat for dinner yesterday and today? Chicken hearts? The liver? What kind of food is this anyway? Russian cartoons — why on earth should you watch them at all?

In Norway, almost no homework is given in schools. The norm for their implementation is only ten minutes. Well, my husband and I, of course, took care of the children ourselves, tried to teach them something. Including, of course, they taught Russian, they really wanted them not to forget it.

It turns out that teaching children Russian is a mockery of children and a crime. That is, we are terrible and inadequate parents who bring up their daughters incorrectly, feed them incorrectly and speak to them in the wrong language.

One of the daughters said a phrase - something like "our dad is strict, he maintains discipline at home." And my husband was forbidden to approach the children and somehow communicate with them. We were informed that the children were afraid of us, and took them to the crisis center. Then, however, six months later, all charges were dropped due to lack of evidence.…

The situation was very serious, our whole family was in a state of shock. We contacted the Russian embassy and they confirmed to us that the problem is very, very serious. At any time, our children could be taken away from us and given to another family for upbringing.

And if, God forbid, it turns out during the interrogation that at least once there was a banal slap on the ass — that's it, this is deprivation of parental rights, daughters will be taken away from us. This is a normal practice for Norway.

And in this situation, we had no choice but to leave home, a good job, school — and run to Russia. It is useless to prove that we are not camels, but normal people.