Olympic champion of the 2006 in figure skating and the current wife of the Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskova Tatyana Navka suggested that Roman Kostomarova change his citizenship.. 47-year-old Russian transferred amputation of the legs and arms after a serious illness.

On January 10, Kostomarov before last was hospitalized with pneumonia. A few days later, he fell into a coma and he was connected to an ECMO apparatus (extorporepical membrane oxygenation). As a result, the athlete seriously suffered small vessels in the limbs and tissue necrosis began.

According to Roman, at the beginning of his career, many skaters moved to other countries in search of the best conditions.

\? Yes. I knew that I could go to the USA. Good partners from Russia were bought for a thousand to one thousand two hundred dollars a month, ”he admitted at a creative evening that was held on Friday on the Little Stage of the Moscow Art Theater named after Chekhov.

Roman Kostomarov also recalled that Navka, who is a native of Dnepropetrovsk (now the Dnieper), and at that time played for Belarus, suggested that he change the flag. However, he refused: " According to him, the solutions were influenced by the images of Soviet champions standing on the Olympic pedestal under the anthem of the USSR.

On December 13, 2023, Kostomarov was included in the sanctions list for the support of the war against Ukraine. January 7, the corresponding decree of the Verkhovna Rada was signed by Vladimir Zelensky.