A group gathered outside the tournament's main venue, the Rod Laver Arena, holding some Russian flags, including an image of Vladimir Putin, chanting 'Serbia, Russia'.
A group gathered outside the tournament's main venue, the Rod Laver Arena, holding some Russian flags, including an image of Vladimir Putin, chanting "Serbia, Russia".Video has emerged of Novak Djokovic's father at a pro-Russian demonstration at the Australian Open tennis.The bearded man is wearing a T-shirt with the pro-war Z symbol on it.
Mr Djokovic makes a brief comment to him. That remark, according to the caption on the video, is:"Long live the Russians." The footage was posted on YouTube by Simeon Boikov - who is reportedly a Putin supporter - using the handle Aussie Cossack. After Novak Djokovic's quarter-final victory over Russian Andrey Rublev, a group gathered on some steps outside the tournament's main venue, the Rod Laver Arena, holding Russian flags and chanting"Serbia, Russia".
One of them appeared to be the same man Mr Djokovic was pictured standing next to, holding the Putin flag.He tweeted:"It's a full package. Among the Serbian flags, there is: a Russian flag, Putin, Z symbol, so-called Donetsk People's Republic flag. It's such a disgrace…"The former Ukrainian tennis player Alex Dolgopolov, who is serving with the Ukrainian army, tweeted that the scenes were"absolutely disgusting".
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