MOSCOW, June 23, Oleg Bogatov.The Ministry of Sports of Russia, together with the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), is carrying out various activities to return financial resources from international sports organizations spent on the preparation of major competitions planned in Russia and then canceled, the amount of costs incurred is over 70 million US dollars and 30 million euros , Andrey Fedorov, Deputy Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation, said. On Thursday, a meeting was held in the Federation Council on the issue of preventing unfriendly actions against Russian athletes by international organizations. At the end of February, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recommended that sports federations not allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete because of the situation in Ukraine. Previously scheduled tournaments in Russia were also canceled. «An important part of our work is appealing against decisions of international federations to cancel sports competitions in Russia scheduled for 2022-2023,» Fedorov said. «Today, 186 international events have been postponed, 36 of which are major — World Championships, etc. The total amount of contributions paid by Russia for these competitions amounted to more than 70 million US dollars, more than 30 million euros and more than 5 million Swiss francs.Federal budget funds accounted for a significant part — over 40 million dollars, 4 million euros and 5 million Swiss francs.» «Based on the instructions that we received from the government of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Sports, together with the ROC, organized work to inform our federations and regional authorities about the start of actions to return funds from international sports organizations, — added the deputy head of the department. — To date, following the results of work with the International th chess federation decided to return the funds in full — more than 1 million euros. And 830 thousand euros have already been transferred to the budget of Ugra, where the competitions (the World Chess Olympiad) were to be held. And the International Boxing Federation and the Russian Boxing Federation have entered into an agreement on the return of 5 million Swiss francs.»
