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Basketball player of the Russian national team Josselina Maiga, in an interview with a Lenta.ru correspondent, assessed the situation with racism in the country.

She stated that she does not consider discrimination based on skin color in Russia to be a global problem. “I lived in different cities and did not encounter real aggression. Walking around the same Moscow, I have never seen anything like it. Unless children can point a finger, but you can’t be offended at them, ”the black athlete emphasized.

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She noticed that the story of the coach Andrey Voronkov, who called Cuban volleyball player Ailama Montalvo a monkey, was a big shock for her. “I have been playing at a professional level for 12 years, and I have never met such a person. And I have many legionnaire friends from America and Africa, they have no problems, ”Maiga said.

According to her, she can only remember one hurtful incident. “There was a European Championship, and I read in the comments: “Why did you give this black a Russian passport, she plays badly.” But I think it was people who simply wrote out of ignorance, ”concluded the basketball player.

Maiga is an MBA player, before she played for Dynamo Kursk, Gorzow from Poland and Nadezhda from Orenburg. Her mother is Russian, her father is Malian.