In Ufa, the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan, the XII International Sports Forum “Russia – Sports Power” is held. The event gathered 5,000 guests on its site, including a large delegation of Olympic champions and famous athletes and coaches.
The theme of an international event this year is “Sports – a complex view of the future”.
On the eve of the plenary meeting of the sports forum was performed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Prospects, tomorrow of world sports, indeed, need a serious, subject discussion, a joint search for an answer to the question: how to overcome the difficult challenges of modernity, prevent the split of the international sports family, cleanse sport from vulgar politicalization, and double standards, perverted rules, humiliating discrimination, including on the basis of citizenship and nationality of athletes, ”said the President of the Russian Federation.
He noted that today it is obvious that “the world sport, the Olympic movement is trying not to make an arena for honest competitions, but with a platform for geopolitical games, for the imposition of destructive neoliberal agenda, propaganda of unnatural norms and pseudo -arts and denial of traditional values that centuries with which centuries , for millennia, the vast majority of countries and peoples of the planet lives. “
“Russia – I am sure, and the world majority – chooses another way. This is equality and openness, mutual respect in all areas of cooperation: in economics and culture, in science and education, in healthcare, trade, politics and, of course , in sports, ”the Russian leader emphasized.
According to Putin, Russia see “in sports one of the key routes to achieve national development goals, a powerful resource that can improve the quality of life of people, to discover new horizons of self -realization, believe in themselves and become successful – both in sports, and in life in general “.
XII International Sports Forum “Russia – Sports Power” will last until October 19.