Champions of terror

Russia uses sport as a tool of propaganda and to circumvent sanctions
Total number:
123
Individuals
Updated: 02.12.2024
The participation of russian athletes in international competitions is a means of whitewashing russia`s reputation (sportwashing), spreading disinformation, justifying and legitimizing aggression against Ukraine among foreign audiences and demonstrating russia`s continued presence in the civilized world
Russian officials in international sports committees and federations remain a russian lobby and an element of strategic influence outside russia, providing ways to establish international relations and cooperation bypassing sanctions
What needs to be done:
  • suspend russian athletes from international competitions
  • exclude russian sports officials from international organizations
Sport should symbolize peace again
 
 
GABBASOV Ramil Gabdraufovich
GABBASOV Ramil Gabdraufovich
Soviet karate practitioner, President of the International Public Organization "International Federation of All-Style Karate", President of the All-Russian Public Sports Organization "Russian Federation of All-Style Karate"., President of the "Our Fatherland" Foundation for the Development of Citizens' Patriotism
Participant in russia's war against Ukraine, commander of the Soyuz squad created in December 2022 by Sergei Kirienko and Yuri Trutnev on the basis of the russian Union of Martial Arts (RSBI) from professional athletes. As of December 2023, 145 people have joined the squad.
The fighters were trained and harmonized at the russian Special Forces University in Chechnya. Its founder, Daniil Martynov, an aide to Ramzan Kadyrov, is co-chairman of the RSBI. Kirienko, together with co-founder Yuri Trutnev, is personally responsible for providing and personally visiting Donbass to transfer equipment - drone detection equipment, equipment and outfit, sniper rifles - to the Soyuz detachment.
During the war, the RSBI made purchases from the Moscow arms showroom Arsenal for 139 million rubles, and from the rifle manufacturer Lobaev Arms for 35 million rubles. The RSBI bought optical equipment from the companies Innovative Weapon Technologies (for 19 million rubles) and Navigator (25 million rubles). The russian University of Special Forces in Chechnya received 38 million rubles from the RSBI for training volunteers.
The charitable foundation "Our Fatherland" under Gabbasov's leadership systematically organizes and conducts fundraisers for the needs of servicemen of the russian armed forces, is engaged in socialization and employment of the so-called "veterans of the SMO" and patriotic education of young people, establishes schools for piloting and assembling UAVs.
He was included in the list of putin's proxies for the presidential election in 2024.
Visited the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
War & Sanctions 2024