The IARA Board of Directors has established five standing committees to carry out tasks in the field of protecting the rights of athletes and fans.

The IARA BoD has established five standing commissions: on martial arts, combating corruption in professional sports, developing E-Sports, protecting the rights of fans, as well as resolving sports conflicts and disputes (mediation, reconciliation and arbitration procedures).

  The Commission on martial arts was headed by Oleg Zakharov, President of the Rostov Kyokushinkai Association, coach of the highest category, sports judge of the international category, Chairman of the Rostov regional branch of the All-Russian public organization "Russian-Japanese Society". Mr. Zakharov became PhD in 2020, defended his thesis on "Theory and methodology of physical education, sports training, recreational and adaptive physical culture." Author of over 70 scientific articles in leading scientific Russian journals in the field of professional sports.

    Alexander Sukharenko, director of the Center for the Study of New Challenges and Threats to National Security at the Primorsky Institute of State and Municipal Administration (Vladivostok), became the head of the Commission for combating corruption in professional sports. Sukharenko has written many scientific monographs and articles devoted to the problems of organized crime, corruption in law enforcement agencies and government agencies. All his studies are full of bold reasoned objective conclusions, based on official statistics and verified facts.

    Alexander Gorbachenko, head of the Moscow Cybersport Federation, has been elected as the head of the Commission for the development of E-Sports. Gorbachenko headed the All-Russian Federation of Cybersport for a long time and deeply knows all the problems of this new sport. There are especially many legal problems in this sport related to the intellectual property of computer games and the regulation of financial relations. The problem of recognizing this sport as an Olympic discipline has not been resolved either.

The Board of Directors also elected Eduard Latypov, President of the interregional public movement Russia Unites, as the head of the Fans' Rights Protection Commission. This organization consolidates tens of thousands of fans in Russia and has branches in 26 regions of Russia. Latypov is known in public fan organizations in many countries of the world. He is one of the most famous leaders of the fan movement in Russia.

   We are also very glad that one of the most famous lawyers of Belarus, Professor Viktor Kamenkov, agreed to head the Commission for resolving of sports conflicts and disputes (mediation, reconciliation and arbitration procedures). Professor Kamenkov, Honored Lawyer of the Republic of Belarus, Chairman of the Standing Legal Commission of the Belarusian National Olympic Committee, heads the International Arbitration Court in Belarus, author of more than 400 scientific and educational publications, including in the field of sports law. Professor Kamenkov is going to organize, under the auspices of the IARA, the training of sports mediators at the Scientific and Educational Center at the Belarusian State University.

   The International Athlete Rights Association continues to work on the formation of new governing bodies and the expansion of contacts in Russian sports and international relations in professional sports all over the world.

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