Deputy head of the Russian Ministry of Defense Timur Ivanov, arrested in a criminal case, is his friend…

His friend Sergei Borodin, arrested in a criminal case against the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Timur Ivanov, is notable, in particular, for the fact that he heads the ANO Sports Club “Red Stars”, which manages the hockey team of the same name. As follows from the Red Stars website, which is currently not working (available in the archive), they were positioned as “the team of the Deputy Minister of Defense.”

On January 25, 2021, “Red Stars” on Red Square played a match with the “Stars of the Student Hockey League” team, for which, judging by the video report, they were clearly not students. For example, the first vice-president of the Russian Hockey Federation, Roman Rotenberg. No less remarkable is the composition of the “deputy minister of defense team”: the then head of the United Russia faction in the State Duma Sergei Neverov, the Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Oleg Matytsin.

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The Red Stars hockey uniform features the logo of the Putin Team movement, created in 2017 by Washington Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin in support of Vladimir Putin. The FHR President, State Duma deputy from United Russia Vladislav Tretyak, was present at the match. Judging by the Red Stars website, after that meeting no significant events occurred in the life of the hockey club.