The meeting was attended by representatives from the Presidential Executive Office, the Government Executive Office, the Federal Assembly, federal and regional executive government bodies, Russian national sports federations, joint-stock companies, and other organisations.
In his opening remarks, Igor Levitin set the goals in preparing a regular session of the Presidential Council for the Development of Physical Culture and Sport.
The participants discussed proposals on improving legislation regulating the activities of sports NGOs in today’s conditions. They determined the next steps in the preparations for the Council.
The participants noted the need to streamline organisational conditions for developing government and public management of sports, determine economic and financial indicators of the correlation between state and private funding, and support high competitiveness of Russian sports in the international sports arena.
During the discussion, special attention was paid to interaction of international and Russian sports federations, professional sports leagues, sports clubs, and fitness and sports societies, and to specifying their authorities and responsibility for developing physical culture and sports.