“This is all empty talk. I was never offered to play for another country. And if offered, I would refuse. I never intended to change my citizenship. I’m not going to do it now, ”quoted kp.ru to Tuktamyshev.

Tuktamysheva is the 2015 world and European champion.

Earlier, the 1994 Olympic champion Alexei Urmanov reacted to the words of a journalist from the United States, who suggested Tuktamysheva to play for Canada.