Reportedly holing up in a Swiss chalet, Russian gymnast Alina Kabaeva is the target of an online petition that wants Switzerland to oust her, as Russian President Vladimir Putin, her rumoured lover, continues to torment lives in Ukraine. 

Citizens of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus have joined forces through a petition on change.org, demanding Switzerland to deport Kabaeva, who is believed to be sheltered in a chalet with her three children in the country. 

“Despite the current war, Switzerland continues to host an accomplice of Putin’s regime. It’s time Switzerland take action and reunite Alina ‘Eva Braun’ Kabaeva with her ‘Fuhrer’,” the headline of the petition reads. 

“The public has just learned that the Russian political and media figure, and former athlete, Alina Kabaeva, is hiding the consequences of the sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation in YOUR country. She is the favourite wife of a delusional dictator and war criminal who has been treacherously attacking Ukraine over the past weeks,” the petition reads. 

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Amassing over 62,000 signatures, the petition adds, “Alina Kabaeva is not only a woman who stained herself with an association with the Russian dictator, but also a criminal against humanity.”

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38-year-old Alina Kabaeva is a gymnast and an Olympic gold medallist, popularly known as ‘Russia’s most flexible woman’. According to media reports, Kabaeva is a mistress to Vladimir Putin and the mother of his three children. 

Condemning Switzerland for contradicting its neutral standpoint on Russia by “hosting” Kabaeva, the petitioners of the online campaign added, “For the first time in modern history, your country has violated its neutrality, which it did not even do vis-à-vis Nazi Germany in the 20th century, and joined the sanctions against Putin and his surroundings. And now you are allowing his favourite mistress and her children to hide within the borders of your state!”

The petitioners further urged Switzerland to “investigate very carefully the legal basis on which she is present in your country.”