solidarity with athletes: Former judoka Putin with younger comrades
In Sochi the water was. On the streets, at the airport. A cyclone, it said. “Weather” is said to have also led to a “meeting” of President Vladimir Putin with sports officials, coaches and athletes delayed wishing to participate for Russia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Then she found out loud announcement of the Kremlin later place in the evening. Images show a monologue Putin. Input he said praising the preparations for the Games was to “give due level”.
Author: Friedrich Schmidt, political correspondent for Russia and the CIS in Moscow
It took a while until Putin came to the topic that currently haunts the Russian and international sport: the allegations of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) on doping in Russian Athletics. Dick Pound, head of Wada-finding mission, said earlier this week in Geneva, the Russian state had supported doping, “because there is no doubt” that it was “probably a legacy of the Soviet system.” The head of until Tuesday this week WADA accredited doping laboratory in Moscow have regularly covered up positive samples, last December, shortly before a review in 1417 of them. Reported involvement of the secret service FSB. Now threatens the exclusion of Russian athletes from the games in Brazil.
Sports for the image
That would be an embarrassment for the Kremlin. This is the purpose of the sport to uphold Russia’s image as a world power. Sporting successes are an instrument of policy to have occurred weaknesses of the economy, health care, the road condition in the background. Since November 1, is dedicated to a new TV station called “Match!” Solely to sport. Sponsorship has long been a means to improve Russia’s image abroad and to secure Putin’s influence in international sports federations.
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The Russian VTB Bank has been one of the main sponsors of the World Athletics Federation IAAF, which is now to decide on the exclusion of Russian athletes; on Thursday announced the Bank, the funding agreement had expired after five years and denied a connection with the doping allegations. The Gazprom Group promotes football associations UEFA and FIFA and the football club Schalke 04, Red Star Belgrade, Zenit St Petersburg and FC Chelsea. The latter is owned by the oligarch Roman Abramovich, Arsenal largely billionaire Alisher Usmanov, who is also president of the International Fencing Federation.
The list of influential Russians in world sports is endless. Sport celebrations in Russia are legion: 2013 World Championships in Athletics, the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and the World Judo Championship (Putin is an honorary president of the International Judo Federation), this year’s world championships in fencing and swimming, 2016, the Ice Hockey World Championships , 2018 should follow the jewel of world sport in terms of attention, the football World Cup. Putin supports beleaguered by allegations of corruption Fifa president, praises that Joseph Blatter advocate to separate sport and politics.
Wada allegations should action be taken
In contradiction to accusations to the address of Russia in the field of sport in Moscow are regularly “politically motivated” as dismissed. So it was at first, even after publication of the WADA report. Putin’s spokesman called “evidence”, until then the allegations appeared “rather pointless”. Now is highlighted in Moscow on the one hand, you’ll be cooperative and determine conscientiously. On the other hand expressed about Vitaly Mutko – Putin’s Minister of Sport, President of the Russian Football Association and FIFA executive member -, the scandal’s aim was to weaken the Russian team
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© AFP President under martial artists: Vladimir Putin feels comfortable
President under martial artists: Vladimir Putin feels comfortable
Before the athletes and officials in Sochi Putin also promised a “own internal investigation” and a “very open, professional cooperation with the international anti-doping structures”. Overlooking “responsibility” for wrongdoing by the President but said this needed to be “personalized” to protect innocent athletes.
The aim is to Wada-allegations to take their thrust against the sports system in Russia as a whole. Because they are also directed against Minister Mutko, because comprehensive of Putin’s control, which he now relined in Sochi under enumeration of new training centers and sports facilities in the country since 2012, but ultimately against the president himself.
opponents are sidelined
The sport is also part of the redistribution aspect of Putin’s power system. Company his companions build the infrastructure for major events, according to anti-corruption activists at prices far above the market level. Arkady Rotenberg about, once Putin’s judo training partner, built in Sochi, among other things roads, hotels and the Formula 1 circuit. Whoever resists, runs the risk of being sidelined by the judiciary.
And so it went Yevgeny Witischko of the “Ecological Guard in the North Caucasus”, who had used against the destruction of the environment by construction work for the Games of Sochi. He was sentenced to three years in prison camps because of property damage. Witischko had a sign attached to a fence to protest against the fact that the underlying properties of the governor of the region was built on a piece of forest illegally confiscated. Environmental degradation as they have in the area around Sochi also meant that there are more floods than before. On Tuesday a court ordered that Witschiko after serving half his sentence should come at liberty.
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