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Belarus has violated the financial obligations it assumed as the organizer of the 2022 World Chess Olympiad. Therefore, the country is deprived of the right to do so, said a lawyer for the International Chess Federation. FIDE Alexander Martynov.
Belarus has forfeited the right to host the 2022 World Chess Olympiad. The International Chess Federation FIDE has stated that Belarusian organizers have failed to fulfill a number of obligations, chess portal Chess.com reports on October 4, citing the comment. of the federation.
“It should be noted that the organizers violated certain financial obligations. Out of respect for the organizers, we would not like to specify the amounts, but these are quite significant violations,” said FIDE lawyer Alexander Martynov.
The Belarusian Ministry of Sports and Tourism cannot guarantee advance payment and insurance, Martynov said.
“FIDE has been conducting negotiations in good faith for several months. Unfortunately, they have not produced results. The organizers do not discuss the violations and their significance,” he added.
FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich in conversation with Chess.com He stressed that the financial problems of the Belarusian organizers may not be related to the political unrest in the country.
“Of course it doesn’t help, but it’s definitely not the main reason. In early summer, before the election, [представители Беларуси] told us they couldn’t organize events ” – he said.
Belarus won the bid to host the 2022 World Chess Olympiad in October 2018. At the moment it is not known where the World Chess Olympiad will take place, notes the chess portal.
The political crisis in Belarus makes it difficult to organize international sporting events. The protests have continued in the country since August 9 due to the falsification of the voting results in the presidential elections. According to official data, the head of state Alexander Lukashenko won them. At the same time, alternative exit polls showed a sure victory for the opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
The Belarusian security forces harshly dispersed the protesters. They used stun grenades, rubber bullets, and water cannons. During the protests, more than 10 thousand protesters were arrested, hundreds were injured and wounded. According to official figures, four protesters died.
In particular, on October 4, 200 protesters were arrested in Belarus. That day, tens of thousands of Minsk residents participated in a demonstration, demanding the release of all those detained during the protest actions. Four metro stations in Minsk were closed, mobile internet was intermittent.
During the actions, the March for the Liberation of the Prisoners took place, whose participants ruined the water cannon, with which the security forces tried to disperse the procession.
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