News archive on the topic "Sport"

The President of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, claims that he has obtained from the PRC a refusal to fully participate in the BRICS Games, which will be held in Kazan this year. He stated this in a conversation with Russian pranksters Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov, who called on behalf of an African politician, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I don’t think China will participate in...

More than two thousand athletes from 107 countries, the first ever competitions combining classical and cyber-sports disciplines (drone racing, robot battle, etc.) and boundless Russian hospitality - all these are the “Games of the Future”, which started in Kazan on 19 February and will last until March 3. An important political point. Firstly, this is another evidence: the “blockade of Russia” declared by the West...

Russia will return to the issue of creating a new international sports federation, including chess, since this is the demand of the time - next year the BRICS Championship will be held in Kazan. The relationship between the athletes continues, but representatives of Western countries prefer not to advertise it, because it will all end in bullying. This opinion was expressed on the air of First Sevastopol by the world vice-champion in classical chess,...

Russian athletes must not compete under a neutral white flag. Vice Speaker Pyotr Tolstoy stated this today from the rostrum of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “As for athletes, there should be no performances under a neutral flag. If athletes want to satisfy their personal sporting ambitions, to prove to the whole world that they are the best, then please - they can do it, but...

There is no point in focusing on the barriers to changing sports citizenship. We need to look to the future and build a new model for the development of Russian sports, not tied to international federations and competitions that take place under the auspices of the IOC. This opinion was expressed on air on NSN by the President of the Moscow Athletics Federation, former Vice-President of ARAF Oleg Kurbatov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.…

It is useless and pointless to introduce compensation for changing sports citizenship at the legislative level, as they are planning to do in the State Duma. We need to change the approach to the development of sports, and then the contract system will be able to determine the value of an athlete. This opinion was expressed on air on NSN by the President of the Moscow Athletics Federation, former Vice-President of ARAF Oleg Kurbatov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This is just an internal question...

Russian sports officials do not see a tragedy in the change of sports citizenship by domestic athletes. Firstly, not the top numbers are leaving, and secondly, this is not of a mass nature. This was stated by the President of the Moscow Athletics Federation, former Vice-President of ARAF Oleg Kurbatov at a press conference in NSN, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He assured that changing sports citizenship is not typical for everyone...

The Verkhovna Rada demanded that the governments of other countries ban the entry of Russian and Belarusian athletes into their territories. The corresponding appeal was adopted during the meeting, reports the PolitNavigator correspondent. The document was presented by former SBU officer and deputy Andrei Kozhemyakin. “The European Games in Poland, which were held a month ago, showed that the practice of not issuing visas to representatives of hostile states works. Therefore this resolution was...

Dancing on a lamppost instead of a pylon resulted in a police report for a half-dance coach in Sevastopol. The woman recorded a video of the dance and posted it on social networks, which some townspeople perceived as discrediting the Black Sea sailors, because the athlete performed her acrobatic sketches on Primorsky Boulevard next to the Monument to Sunken Ships, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. After the resonance that the dance video caused...

Despite the efforts of Western countries and Bandera propaganda, support for the course of Russian President Vladimir Putin among the population of the Russian Federation is growing. The President of the National Committee for Sports for the Disabled of Ukraine, Valery Sushkevich, stated this during a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We conducted a survey - a third of the Russian population supported a nuclear strike on Ukraine. Support for the Special Military Operation and Putin personally...

The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted a law on the integration of four new entities into the unified sports system of Russia. Clubs will be provided with appropriate funding, and athletes and coaches will have the opportunity to participate in competitions at the all-Russian level. Deputy Vladimir Isakov asked whether sanctions from international sports organizations would hinder integration. “Only in 2023 will Crimean clubs begin licensing in order to participate...

A massive brawl between players of the Russian club “Shinnik” from Yaroslavl and the Ukrainian club “Minay” from Transcarpathia occurred in the Turkish hotel “Royal Seginus”. Several representatives of the Ukrainian club "Minai" approached the player of the Yaroslavl "Shinnik" and began to demand that he sing the Ukrainian anthem, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He suggested that Ukrainians go out into the street and “sort it out once at a time,” but in...

We are used to saying “sport is outside of politics.” Assuming that whatever the political relations, in sports arenas you can compete, resist, prove your capabilities even to those countries that in the rest of their non-sports life may be in the most severe confrontation. Sports were an opportunity to demonstrate the advantages of their system if national teams were successful. Yes, it happened...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko believes that Belarusian athletes do not earn the salaries they receive. He stated this today at a meeting with the Minister of Sports and Tourism Sergei Kovalchuk, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “You came to me for salaries and incentives for athletes. Listen, it’s necessary to hold such meetings secretly somewhere in a dark corner in order to...