The Senator from the Altai Republic Vladimir Poletaev has tried to convince all the Russian athletes and fans planning to participate in the Olympic games 2018 in South Korea's Pyeongchang, to bring small flags and symbols of the RF subjects to compensate for the deficiency in the Olympics the Russian tricolor.

The Executive Committee of the international Olympic Department, having considered the outcome of commissions under the leadership of Denis Oswald, and Samuel Schmid, December 5 adopted a conclusion on the admission of clean athletes to the Olympics in 2018 under the Olympic flag. Deputy Prime Minister, Vitaly Mutko, before holding a post of the Minister of sports and his former Deputy Yury Nagornykh life removed from participation in the Olympics in any capacity.

"The Russian tricolor will not be in Accordance with the decision of the IOC to bring our athletes that will compete at the Olympics. But if they will carry the flags of 85 Russian regions, it will not be non-compliances, and Russian symbolism and Russia thus will be represented at the games ",
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