The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has upheld the removal of the Paralympic Committee of Russia (RCC) from speeches.

A corresponding decision was made during today's meeting at the headquarters of the organization in Bonn. "The International Paralympic Committee announced on Wednesday that it supports the suspension of the Russian Paralympic Committee and will take a final decision on whether the National Paralympic Committee can participate in the Paralympic Winter Games in Phenchkhan 2018, at the end of January," the IPC press service said. , which leads "Newspaper. RU". The head of the organization, Andrew Parsons, said that the IPC was impressed with the "level of cooperation and progress achieved by the RCC," but the board of directors unanimously decided to extend the suspension "because the recovery criteria were not fully implemented". According to Parsons, the Russian side must provide evidence that refutes the conclusions of the Richard McLaren Commission that Russian athletes took doping systematically, with the support of government officials. On the eve of the IPC, the Russian Paralympic athletes allowed to compete in four winter sports - mountain skiing, biathlon, skiing and snowboarding - under a neutral flag. But even if the Russians get through to the Paralympic Games on sports indicators, the question of their participation will be decided definitively only in January. In Russia, the decision of the IPC on the prevention of domestic Paralympic athletes to the Games was called unfair. "Unfortunately, such a decision was expected. As I said in the summer, they will cut off the dog's tail gradually. So everything happens, the IPC pulls with the decision, "- said the State Duma deputy Svetlana Zhurova. According to the Olympic champion, "even the IOC allowed the admission of individual athletes to the Games, and the IPC does not even consider this option". "The IPC already mocks so much over our Paralympic athletes that even they, people of strong will, are partly accustomed to it," Zhurova stated with sadness. Its colleague on the deputy corps Dmitry Svishchev called the decision of the IPC inhumane. "From the ethical point of view, they do not have the right to make such decisions. They delay the adoption of the final decision, transferring it to January, this is utterly disgraceful. Yesterday we communicated with (the first vice-president of the Paralympic Committee of Russia) Pavel Rozhkov, he told me that he expected a positive outcome of the case, but we see that an inhuman decision was made, "said the parliamentarian. The same opinion is held in the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation.

"We are disappointed with the decision that the removal of the RCC was left in force. RCC fulfilled all obligations.

And the fact that the IPC has made the restoration of the work of the Investigative Committee and the recognition of the McLaren report dependent, I consider unreasonable, "the head of the department Pavel Kolobkov told reporters.

The membership of the PCR in the IPC was suspended in August 2016.

after the publication of the McLaren Report; Thus, the Russians missed the Summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. In November of the same year, the PCR received the recovery criteria from the IPC. In May 2017 g. the Executive Committee of the IPC unanimously voted to extend the suspension of the PCR.