Sergei YaremenkoSport correspondentAll materialsReporter Sergei Yaremenko explains on the agency's blog what the decision of the International Football Federation (FIFA) to make Russian one of the official languages of the organization really means. A few months ago, the news about the inclusion of Russian as an official language in FIFA would have passed unnoticed. For example, at the Tokyo Games, the International Olympic Committee reduced the team of interpreters at daily briefings — a Russian-speaking specialist was also among those who fell under the reduction. At the main events — like the press conferences of Thomas Bach — the translation into Russian remained, but the journalists had to translate the daily routine from English on their own.
