MOSCOW, March 4, Sergey Pogrebnyak. President of the Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation Irina Viner Usmanova in an interview criticized the proposal of the Minister of Sports and Tourism of Poland Kamil Bortnichuk to exclude all Russians from the International Olympic Committee and all international sports federations. Bortnichuk made such a statement on Monday in Luxembourg at a meeting of the EU Council for Education, Youth, Culture and Sports (EYCS) . Russian Vasily Titov holds the post of first vice-president of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). «Vasily Titov is our elected person in the executive committee of the International Gymnastics Federation. So such decisions can only be made in the federation itself. And Bortnichuk's proposal is a continuation of cave Russophobia,» Viner-Usmanova said.
