Russian mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Jeff Monson said he faced hate every day after he renounced his American citizenship. “Sport Express”.
“My three older children live in America. It will be difficult to see them. It could be in another country. “Since I renounced my American citizenship, I’ve been getting hate messages from America, Europe and especially Ukraine every day,” Monson said.
The American MMA fighter became a Russian citizen in 2018. He was born in Saint Paul, USA in 1971 and first announced in 2013 that he wanted to change his American citizenship to Russian. In the spring of 2023, he handed over his American passport to the US Embassy in Istanbul, Turkey.
In March 2018, Monson became the owner of the United Russia party card, and in September of the same year he was elected to the Krasnogorsk city district.
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