Azerbaijani MMA fighter Javid Rzayev stripped of Russian citizenship

The deprivation of citizenship occurred after the Azerbaijani athlete uttered ethnic insults against his Russian opponent.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, Mutvala Shykhlinski's lawyer, the son of the head of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Yekaterinburg, was arrested in connection with the case of violence against a security officer. Shykhlinski stated that he did not see the security officer and unintentionally knocked him down.

Azerbaijani mixed martial artist Javid Rzayev has been stripped of his Russian citizenship. He clarified that he was not deported from Russia. By court order, he is serving a forced labor sentence in the case of beating a DJ in Engels, RBC reports

Earlier, the Telegram channel Readovka published a video in which the decision to deprive the Azerbaijani fighter of citizenship is read out by a person with a covered face. It follows from the video that the FSB Directorate for the Saratov Region established that Rzayev committed actions that "negatively affect political and social stability in society" and created a "threat to national security." At the same time, what exactly Rzayev did is not specified.

Apologies and disqualification

In June 2024, an incident involving Rzayev after his victory over Russian Sergey Prikhodko in a fistfight tournament of the Hardcore organization received wide resonance. Then the Azerbaijani athlete insulted the fighter Artur Kulinsky on the basis of his nationality.

Later, Rzayev published a video of an apology on his Instagram page, clarifying that his words were addressed exclusively to Kulinsky, and not to all residents of Russia.

“I want to apologize to all Russian people, to all of Russia, to Russian society. Yes, just to everyone whose feelings I hurt... This is not an excuse, but I was emotional after the fight, I took a lot of punches. I repent, this whole situation is very unpleasant for me,” Rzayev said.

At the same time, the Russian Boxing Federation appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office due to insults on national grounds and disqualified Rzayev. “(The Federation) filed a statement with the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation and applied a sports sanction in the form of sports disqualification against Rzayev's fighter Javid Seyidi Ogly,” the sports organization's Telegram channel said.