Disinfo: The aim of IOC is to show that Russia is not a great power

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Russia are told by the International Olympic Committee and others; guys, did you think that you are a great power? And you were put in your place.

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The aim of the IOC is to protect the integrity of the Olympic games, which has been undermined by Russian cheating. It was the systematic state sponsored doping program in Russia that made the IOC decide this www.olympic.org/news/ioc-suspends-russian-noc-and-creates-a-path-for-clean-individual-athletes-to-compete-in-pyeongchang-2018-under-the-olympic-flag, . Russian athletes not convicted of doping will be allowed to compete under Olympic flag. According to the rules of the IOC, any attempt to blockade or blackmail the Olympics means the exclusion from participation in the Games for up to 8 years.

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  • Reported in: Issue 91
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 06/12/2017
  • Outlet language(s) Russian
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: Russia
  • Keywords: Olympics, WADA
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Disinfo: The exclusion of Russia from Winter Olympics has been done in order to humiliate Russia

The exclusion of Russia from Winter Olympics has been done in order to humiliate Russia on the anniversary of the Soviet counter-offensive near Moscow during WWII and avenge the victories of Russia at the Sochi Olympics in 2014. This is proven by the date of the announcement; December 5 – the day of the beginning of the Soviet troops’ counter-offensive near Moscow, in 1941 during WWII. It is done symbolically, to try to humiliate Russia.

Dec 05, 2017
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No evidence given for this bizarre historic linkage. . It was the systematic state sponsored doping program in Russia that made the IOC decide this www.olympic.org/news/ioc-suspends-russian-noc-and-creates-a-path-for-clean-individual-athletes-to-compete-in-pyeongchang-2018-under-the-olympic-flag, . Russian athletes not convicted of doping will be allowed to compete under Olympic flag. According to the rules of the IOC, any attempt to blockade or blackmail the Olympics means the exclusion from participation in the Games for up to 8 years.

Disinfo: The Olympics have never been about sports, but war

The Olympic movement is not only really sports. Originally in Antiquity, and then revived by Coubertin, as a sublimation of war. Because ‘Citius, Altius, Fortius’ are Olympic slogans: “Faster, Stronger and Higher”. ‘Fortius’ is interpreted from Latin not only as “Stronger”, but also as “More courageous”. That is, strength and courage was offered to measure. Not in combat, but in sports competitions.

Dec 05, 2017
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No evidence given. This is seemlingly another attempt to present the world as aggressive and phobic against Russia.

Disinfo: The anti-Russian sanctions of the US have not had any effect

The sanctions do not work.

Dec 04, 2017
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There are various estimates of losses because of sanctions imposed on Russia: both what the countries that imposed sanctions have lost and what Russia itself has lost. In April 2017, for example, while being in Moscow, Idriss Jazairy, the first OHCHR Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, announced that Russia had lost US $ 52-55 billion or about 1% of GDP because of the sanctions imposed in response to the annexation of Crimea. At the end of 2014, Anton Siluanov, Russia's finance minister, reported that Russia was losing US $ 40 billion a year because of the sanctions or 2% of its GDP. In January 2016, Alexei Likhachev, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of Russia, estimated losses as € 25 billion for 2015. Other Russian experts estimated Russia's GDP losses for 2014-2017 as 6% of GDP (see Russian sources in Russian: https://www.rbc.ru/economics/28/04/2017/590332b69a7947ae385244b0 ).