President will consider if ice skater should be stripped of citizenship depending on minister’s decision

President Gitanas Nausėda says Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė should submit her findings before he may decide whether Lithuania’s figure skater Margarita Drobiazko should be stripped of citizenship.

The idea that the Russian-born figure skater should lose Lithuanian citizenship emerged after she performed in Russia in 2022 despite the invasion of Ukraine. Drobiazko and her Lithuanian partner Povilas Vanagas performed in a show in Sochi that was organised by the wife of Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian president.