Sport sphere curators present drafts of state support decree to President

14 апреля 2013

The documents deal not only with finance in general, but also with encouragement of promising athletes. In particular, personal grants will be further on focused on future achievements. The priority in this case is given to the Olympic disciplines. As for competitive sports, the President stressed that clubs should be motivated to earn their own money instead of relying only on public funding and sponsors. By 2015, they must support themselves by at least a half. In this case, the money should be invested in their own development, not only in salaries. Over the past years, trillions of rubles have been allocated for sport. However, the President doubts the effectiveness of their use.


Alexander Shamko, Minister of Sport and Tourism of the Republic of Belarus: “The decrees on state support of sport and encouragement of athletes were discussed at the meeting with the Head of State. These two decrees lay down a number of new approaches outlined by the President and discussed at the meeting on January 29. The decrees will be signed in the near future”.