The organizing committee of the Russian Deaflympics has received applications from 450 athletes representing 27 countries. The Russian national team will include 78 athletes from 16 regions.
Russian athletes have taken part in sports movements for the deaf and hearing-impaired since 1957 and held leading positions in unofficial team rankings.
The R-Sport agency, part of the Rossiya Segodnya media group, will be the General Information Partner for the Organizing Committee of the event.
"For our news desk, it is very important to cover not only high-performance sports, but also those sports which do not have a large audience, but are nevertheless very important. That`s why we support the Paralympic, Deaflympic games and others," R-Sport Desk Head Vasily Konov said.
He said that it was R-Sport’s job to promote the full range of sports that people around the world participate in.
"It is one of our jobs, to promote all kinds of sport, to make people aware and help them understand that anyone, in any situation can move forward, take up sports and perform at the highest level," Konov added.
Rossiya Segodnya is an international media group whose mission is to provide fast, balanced and objective coverage of global events and inform international audiences of various perspectives on key events, including those which are ignored by others.
The media group is Russia`s largest producer of information oriented toward an international audience, the business community, government agencies and the public.
Rossiya Segodnya is engaged in radio broadcasting, and has newswires in Russian, English, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese, information portals in more than 10 languages, and multimedia international press centers producing and distributing photo content and infographics, information materials on social networks and producing content for mobile apps.
Rossiya Segodnya is the most popular news agency in Russia and actively promotes the popularity of its brands abroad. The agency is also the most quoted source of information on Russian social networks and blogs.
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