Bubka in exile from Ukraine?

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Bubka in exile from Ukraine?

Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Mon Aug 20, 2007 8:24 pm

http://www.sportinglife.com/others/news ... 24109.html


Bubka, 43, has proven strengths. Now a Ukrainian exile in the French village of Ez on the border of the IAAF's headquarters in Monaco, he regularly carries out unpaid work for them.



I know he was heavily involved in Ukrainian politics. Did he end up on the wrong side of things there?
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Unread postby achtungpv » Mon Aug 20, 2007 9:39 pm

I think the writer means it as in he's a voluntary expatriate not a forced exile. Exile can mean both but in the US it's usually the term for the latter.
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Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:54 pm

Either way, I did not know he had left the Ukrainian scene.
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Unread postby achtungpv » Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:11 am

rainbowgirl28 wrote:Either way, I did not know he had left the Ukrainian scene.


I don't think he has. He owns restaurants and construction businesses in the Ukraine, he just doesn't live there. I read in an interview that he lives in Monaco for his son's tennis career since his coach is there. Probably the tax situation is tons better also.
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