St. PETERSBURG, April 18, Sergey Yaremenko. Arbitrators from Russia are not will work at the matches of the 2022 Ice Hockey World Championship, Luc Tardif, President of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), said. Earlier, Dmitry Kurbatov, Executive Director of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation (FHR), said that Russian referees would not be involved in international tournaments. The 2022 World Championships will be held in Finland on May 13-29. «It's true, there really won't be any Russian judges at the World Championships,» Tardif said. and Novosibirsk the right to host the 2023 World Youth Championships. The FHR stated that it strongly disagrees with the IIHF decision and reserves the right to appeal it to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). The IIHF has not yet begun to deprive Russia of the right to host the 2023 Senior World Championships, which is scheduled for May 5-21 in St. Petersburg.
