{"id":14921,"date":"2022-04-12T06:02:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T10:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/04\/12\/paok-owner-ivan-savvidis-supporting-russian-seperatists-in-war-with-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2022-04-12T06:02:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T10:02:25","slug":"paok-owner-ivan-savvidis-supporting-russian-seperatists-in-war-with-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/04\/12\/paok-owner-ivan-savvidis-supporting-russian-seperatists-in-war-with-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"PAOK owner Ivan Savvidis \u2018supporting Russian seperatists\u2019 in war with Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PAOK owner Ivan Savvidis has reportedly been supporting Russian separatists in the Donbass region by supplying vehicles and generators to the fighters, it has emerged.<\/p>\n

Savvidis, who is Greek-Russian by origin, has close ties to the Russian president Vladimir Putin and has formerly been a member of Putin\u2019s political party. Before taking charge of PAOK in 2012, the eccentric businessman was the owner of Russian club FC Rostov.<\/p>\n

He has already been \u2018watched closely<\/a>\u2018 during this conflict, amid concerns that his TV station was being more sympathetic to Russia than it perhaps should have been. Yahoo sport<\/a> report that \u2018the Russian embassy bluntly encouraged Greeks to watch his station, Open TV, to get an alternative view to what it called \u201cmisleading propaganda\u201d about the war in Ukraine.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Ivan Savvidis is known to have close ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin (Photo by Wassilis Aswestopoulosullstein bild via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Now, however, it has emerged that Savvidis, as head of the Federation of Greek Communities of Russia, has been sending aid to seperatists in the Donbass region.<\/p>\n

As reported by in.gr<\/a>, \u2018the Federation of Greek Communities of Russia, headed by the well-known and prolific investor in Greece, Ivan Savvidis, chose to deliver the aid directly to Denis Pushilin, the head of the so-called \u201cDonetsk People\u2019s Republic\u201d, essentially differentiating between suffering civilians on the \u201cright side\u201d from those on the \u201cwrong side\u201d, based on the view of the Federation\u2019s leadership.\u2019<\/p>\n

What was delivered?<\/h2>\n

Aid in the form of generators and vehicles was delivered to Mariupol, which is currently under Russian occupation. 20 UAZ vehicles and 14 generators were sent from Rostov-on-Don, where Savvidis used to own his football club, to the region.<\/p>\n

They also provided food and tanks to carry water, all of which was \u2018particularly significant for the liberated areas \u2018, the head of the Donetsk People\u2019s republic revealed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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MONGOLIA \u2013 2015\/10\/03: Russian UAZ-452 4\u00d74 off-road vans at the Golden Eagle Festival grounds near the city of Ulgii (\u00d6lgii) in the Bayan-Ulgii Province in western Mongolia. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler\/LightRocket via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It has let Greek authorities in a tricky spot in a time where Russian sympathisers and supporters are being sanctioned across Europe. It remains unclear just what will happen to Savvidis,<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/p>\n

PAOK owner Ivan Savvidis \u2018being followed closely\u2019 amid Vladimir Putin Russia ties<\/a><\/p>\n

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PAOK owner Ivan Savvidis has reportedly been supporting Russian separatists in the Donbass region by supplying vehicles and generators to the fighters, it has emerged. Savvidis, who is Greek-Russian by origin, has close ties to the Russian president Vladimir Putin and has formerly been a member of Putin\u2019s political party. Before taking charge of PAOK […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-14921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}