ELS at VI International sports forum “Russia is the sports nation”
ELS Deputy General Director Oleg Semenov reported the presentation “Unique worldwide experience of RFU/ELS in creation and implementation of legal assistance program for the Russian national team's fans at the EURO216” within VI International sport forum “Russia is the sports nation” in Vladimir.
On October 13 in Vladimir, on the closing day of VI International sports forum “Russia is the sports nations” the roundtable discussion on “Worldwide threats countermeasures. Creation of the discrimination and violence-free environment”.
The legal cases instances given, the influencing parameters, detailed statistics and analysis of fans’ applications on legal, reference- information and concierge –services, interaction with the official Russian national team’s twitter @TeamRussia quickened interest in the participants of discussion.
The event was held in the congress-building of “Dobrograd” sports resort and was divided in three topics: “Problem statement: racism, discrimination and vandalism in football. Which formats do they exist in?”, “How discrimination and vandalism problem can be settled by the state authorities, clubs and fans: experience interchange and learning lessons”, “Fans and other parties in concern interaction: what measures are obligatory to create discrimination –free environment?”
Representative of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs Konstantin Dolgov, Human Rights Officer at The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Pollan, representatives of the Russian Federation Ministry of Sports, Russian Football Union, Organizing Committee “Russia – 2018”, the Russian Football Premier League, European Legal Service, “Europe football fans” organization, fans unions “Borussia” (Dortmund , Germany) and “Slovan” (Liberetz, the Czech Republic”).
In his final speech the roundtable discussion moderator, legal adviser of the RFU President Denis Rogachev spoke for continuation of cooperation with European Legal Service in establishing joint round-the-clock multilanguage call-center for assistance to fans of the teams participating in the Confederation Cup 2017 and the FIFA World Cup 2018.