Meeting of State Council Commission on Physical Culture and Sport

Taking part in the meeting were Presidential Aide, State Council Secretary Alexei Dyumin Dyumin AlexeiAide to the President , Minister
of Sport Mikhail Degtyarev Degtyarev MikhailMinister of Sport of the Russian Federation , members of the Council for the Development of Physical Culture and Sport, heads of Russian regions, representatives of federal and regional executive bodies, and public organisations.
Alexei Dyumin noted
that the President prioritises physical culture and sports as one of the strategically important areas for the country. That prompted the establishment
of a separate State Council commission on this matter. The commission will
operate as an effective permanent platform for developing proposals and initiatives related to physical culture and sports in Russia, for the exchange of views
between the federal authorities, the regions and the expert community, the State
Council Secretary noted.
Furthermore, Alexei
Dyumin stressed that many policies and mechanisms in Russian sports require
reboot and update: structural changes in the management system, position in the international arena, and adding alternative formats of competitions within
BRICS and the SCO.
Mikhail Degtyarev
reported on the implementation of Presidential instructions, including the creation of a foundation that will provide additional support for children’s
and youth sports, mass sport, sports schools, the Russian Olympic Committee,
the Russian Paralympic Committee, the Russian Deaflympic Committee, the Special
Olympics of Russia, and national and regional sports federations. The foundation will help implement new formats of international competitions and develop
sports infrastructure. The foundation will be funded mainly with purpose-oriented
allocations from gambling.
In conclusion,
Dmitry Milyayev Milyayev DmitryActing Governor of Tula Region underscored the importance of creating equal conditions for rehabilitation,
socialisation and professional fulfilment of special military operation veterans
under the adaptive physical culture and sports programmes on the ground.
The meeting participants
adopted decisions on the following issues:
streamlining legal
regulation in the sphere of physical culture and sports, in particular,
clarification of the status of local sports federations;
introducing uniform
requirements to state regional programmes to develop physical culture and sports and inter-municipal programmes;
creating conditions
for rehabilitation, socialisation and professional fulfilment of special
military operation veterans using the resources and methods of adaptive physical
culture and sports programmes.
The final proposals
will be sent to the working group to prepare the next meeting of the Council
for the Development of Physical Culture and Sports on the role of NGOs in physical culture and sports, scheduled for October this year.