St. PETERSBURG, June 17, Sergey Yaremenko. Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko called world sport inferior without the participation of Russian athletes in it. «Sanctions are not scary, it encourages us to work harder. Sanctions have united us and made the choice more obvious. Halftones are gone — it became clear who is ours, who is a stranger. Sports are faced with sanctions, and he was at the forefront back in 2014, when they stole our victory at the superbly held Olympic Games in Sochi. Even then, the collective West realized that it had not calculated with colonial dependence. They did incredible things to slander our sport. They tried to humiliate our athletes, fence, but they shot themselves in the foot. World sport without us is inferior. I'm not talking about the principles of justice that have been violated,» Chernyshenko said during a session on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). «Now there was a pandemic and sanctions — the working conditions have changed dramatically. Difficulties in the work of athletes reached their apogee. At the same time, many brands were known at the expense of our athletes,» he added. XXV SPIEF takes place in St. Petersburg from June 15 to 18. It acts as the information partner of the forum.
