In California, dropped the charges with the Russian hockey player in domestic violence

The Los Angeles court granted the petition of SKA defender Vyacheslav Voinov to drop charges of domestic violence, journalist Curtis Zupke said on Twitter. Thus, before the Russian hockey player there are no legal obstacles to returning to the NHL. The final decision on whether he can play overseas again remains with the league itself.

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In the fall of 2015, the NHL imposed an indefinite suspension on Voinov, who was playing for Los Angeles at the time, after he was sentenced by a California court to 90 days in prison for domestic violence, writes Sport-Express.

Disqualification occurred after the scandal of beating his wife. Despite the fact that the woman did not press charges against Vyacheslav, the case was set in motion, and the NHL condemned the behavior of the hockey player. After serving his sentence, he was detained by the US immigration police and again imprisoned. Voinov agreed to voluntarily return to Russia in order to avoid deportation and not to wait for the sentence of the immigration court.

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In Russia, the athlete played for St. Petersburg SKA and was forced to miss the 2016 World Cup in Canada and the USA. In 2018, Voynov became an Olympic champion as part of the Red Machine. It is not yet clear what the status of Voinov’s contract with the Kings will be, which was frozen at the time the Russian hockey player left America. The Russian played for the Kings from 2011 to 2015. Together with the team, he won two Stanley Cups, after which he moved to SKA. In the club from St. Petersburg, the defender won the Gagarin Cup in 2017.

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At the end of the KHL season, information appeared about Voinov’s desire to go back to play abroad, but before that he needed to get a work permit and an American visa again. Judging by the photo report of the wife of hockey player Martha, the problem with the visa has already been solved.

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Let us remind you that a tragedy occurred in Florida last weekend - Belarusian who accused her husband of domestic violence, but never received full protection, died at his hands. 42-year-old Mark Alan Berkowitz was arrested on June 28 on charges of murdering his wife, Anastasia Savitskaya, an immigrant from Belarus, whose body was found in the house of spouses. A man hammered a sleeping woman with a hammer when the 8 year old son of a couple was sleeping near her.

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The husband was upset that his wife was about to file for divorce. After discovering her correspondence with another man, he took a hammer from a toolbox and hit her on the head as the woman slept next to her 8-year-old son. At some point, the child woke up and Berkowitz told him to turn over. The boy, unfortunately, managed to notice a wound on his mother’s head and blood in her hair, as well as how his father was dragging the woman’s body into the living room. At that time, the woman was alive, and Berkowitz strangled her with a cable “to put her out of her misery.” He reported all this to his mother, who dialed 911. Berkowitz took the phone from her and told the operator about the murder.

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The mother later told investigators that the couple's relationship was very difficult and the police had already come to their house because of Berkowitz's aggressive behavior. His mother told investigators the couple moved in with her a year ago and said their relationship was very difficult, at times feeling like they were “living in a war zone.” The police had previously been to their home because of Berkowitz's aggression. The killer is now in prison without bail.

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