MOSCOW, June 28, Oleg Bogatov. Russian Bobsleigh Federation presidential candidate ( FBI) Albert Demchenko said that he would not take part in the meeting of the organization's election conference, which will be held on Tuesday, as he considers the conference illegitimate. Initially, the FBI election conference was to be held on May 27 in Moscow. However, on May 25, the Federation Presidium changed the quota system for delegates. Demchenko and Anatoly Pegov are candidates for the post of president of the organization. «According to the decision of the presidium of the federation, which took place yesterday, the conference was postponed to August 19. Therefore, I see no reason to participate in the meeting today. Yes, I will not participate, it is,» Demchenko said .»The presidium decided to postpone the conference to a later date due to the fact that the federation was filed with a lawsuit from the Bobsleigh Federation of St. Petersburg on the legitimacy of the decision of the presidium, which was held in April. The court has not yet taken place. I think that the elections in this situation will be the wrong option. We will continue to work, because there is an attempt to take over the federation by raiders,» he added.
