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Champions of terror

Russia uses sport as a tool of propaganda and to circumvent sanctions
Total number:
76
Individuals
Updated: 13.10.2024
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
 
 
MARTYNOV Daniil Vasilievich
MARTYNOV Daniil Vasilievich
Advisor to the Minister of Emergencies of the russian federation, Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the All-russian Union of Public Organizations "russian Union of Martial Arts", Member of the Supervisory Board of the "Warrior" Military Sports Training Center, Founder of the autonomous non-profit organization "russian University of Special Forces"
He is a russian sports functionary, personal security guard trainer and assistant for interaction with law enforcement agencies to the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov.
The russian Union of Martial Arts, of which Martynov is a member of the presidium, unites 71 all-russian sports federations and organizations representing various styles and areas of martial arts and combat sports that are most actively developing in the russian federation. RSBI is a member of the russian Olympic Committee and the international sports organization TAFISA.
The activities of the RSBI are realized, among other things, in holding national and international sports events in the territory of the russian federation, as well as in creating platforms for the exchange of experience between russian sports federations and the international community.
Every year, the RSBI organizes hundreds of events, the main purpose of which is to popularize and promote martial arts as the most massive sports movement in russia, which allows solving the issue of pre-conscription training of young people.
In December 2022, the Soyuz military detachment was created on the basis of the RSBI, consisting of "international masters of sports, honored masters of sports, first-class masters of sports" who went to war in Ukraine. As of December 2023, 145 people had joined the unit.
The fighters were trained and coached at the russian Special Forces University in Chechnya.
During the war, the RSBI made purchases from the Moscow Arsenal arms dealership for 139 million rubles and the rifle manufacturer Lobaev Arms for 35 million rubles. The RSBI bought optical equipment from Innovative Weapon Technologies (for 19 million rubles) and Navigator (for 25 million rubles). The russian University of Special Forces in Chechnya received 38 million rubles from the RSBI for training volunteers.
He supports and implements putin's policy of deporting Ukrainian children from temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to russia and "integrating" children from the said territories into a unified cultural-educational space and the system of civil-patriotic education of russia.

As the founder and curator of the Autonomous Nonprofit Organization "russian University of Special Forces," which is referred to as a "forge of instructors and professionals for special units, as well as a place for preparing volunteers before sending them to the area of special military operations," he ensured the arrival of teenagers from temporarily occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions to the training ground of the russian University of Special Forces for a so-called "excursion" as part of the "russian Teens" program for "preventive work and instilling patriotism."

As the curator and member of the Observational Council of the Warrior Military-Sports Training Center with regional training centers, including those in temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, he is responsible for the militarization and indoctrination of Ukrainian youth, as well as for the relocation (evacuation) of Ukrainian children from the said territories under the pretext of "recovery and education" to russian territory.

The educational program of the Warrior Military-Sports Training Center consists of tactical, fire, and engineering training, communication organization, tactical medicine, and UAV management. Additionally, within the framework of the Warrior Military-Sports Training Center program, there are summer military-patriotic shifts called "Time of Heroes," which are held at summer children's health camps and other specialized educational institutions. Particularly, according to the statement of the center's unit leader in the so-called "DNR," during the summer of 2024, it is planned to transport 600 children from temporarily occupied Donetsk region to Volgograd in russia for "recovery and education under additional educational programs of the center."
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