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
 
 
KHASAEV Arslan Gabibulaevich
KHASAEV Arslan Gabibulaevich
Athletics coach of the State Budgetary Educational Institution of the Republic of Dagestan "Sports School for Adaptive Sports", Head coach of Trud Stadium (formerly named after Elena Isinbayeva), Deputy Director of the Republican Children and Youth Sports School for Athletics, Methodologist of the Testing Center and Chief Judge of the Republican Center of the All-russian Physical Culture and Sports Complex "Ready for Work and Defense" in the Republic of Dagestan
In 2021, he violated the rules for entering and leaving the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.
He publicly supported Yelena Isinbayeva, a well-known supporter and confidant of putin, a major in the russian armed forces, a member of the putin's Team public movement and the all-russian public and political movement "People's Front "For russia" and a former member of the International Olympic Committee, because she did not renounce her russian sports citizenship.
He is a member of the judicial staff of the Ready for Work and Defense Sports Complex (FSK TRP) and provides information support to it. In particular, in January 2018, he published a post on his VK account about president putin's support for the FSK TRD on his own account on the social networking site.
The FSC TRP was restored by putin's decree in 2014, operates with the support of the President and the top state leadership of the russian federation, cooperates with the sanctioned russian athlete Jeff Monson, the occupation authorities of Crimea and conducts propaganda events in the TOT of Crimea, including the TRP festival among schoolchildren at the International Children's Center "Artek" and a movement with the so-called "Minister of Sports of the Republic of Crimea" on the occasion of the Day of National Unity in Simferopol in 2024.
War & Sanctions 2024