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Thomas Bach’s rallying cry, a private island for the UFC, and an online chess tournament with a USD 250,000 prize fund

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9 April 2020
Призыв Томаса Баха, частный остров для UFC и онлайн-турнир по шахматам с призовым фондом 250 тысяч долл.
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Sports COVID-19
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The Roscongress Foundation is pleased to present its World Sport during the COVID-19 Pandemic news digest for 6–8 April. Topics which are covered in this issue include the following:

— «Stay active, stay strong, stay healthy, and come on,» urges International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach on International Day of Sport for Development and Peace

— UFC to hold tournaments every week on a private island

— US Olympic Committee deprived of hundreds of millions of dollars

— Serie A lobbies for the reintroduction of betting firm advertising for a year to prevent clubs from going bust. Italian National Olympic Committee supports footballers

— World chess champion Magnus Carlsen launches online tournament with USD 250,000 prize fund

— Novosibirsk Governor on preparations for 2023 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships: «Construction work on all facilities has been resumed»

— Caster Semenya beats Cristiano Ronaldo at his own challenge

— Sportmaster: the retail company’s transition to online orders, and secondary employment assistance for staff

— Eleven countries buy Belarusian Premier League broadcasting rights

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21 April 2020
Three Crisis Scenarios: A Forecast

The Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-term Forecasting (CMASF) has produced a study about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the oil prices plunge, and the global cyclical crisis on the Russian economy.

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3 June 2020
COVID-19 and Human Development

Global human development, which can be measured as a combination of the world’s education, health and living standards, could decline this year for the first time since the concept was introduced in 1990, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) warned today. UNDP experts have prepared a document on the current impact of COVID-19 on human development and proposed a Framework for the immediate socioeconomic response.

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8 July 2020
African Socio-political Context in the Midst of the Pandemic: Further Stabilization or a Powder Keg Effect?

The Roscongress Foundation experts prepared a study on the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has on the African continent. The study addresses just how the active spread of the coronavirus is changing the contours of the African socio-political context.

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28 September 2020
Latin America’s fight against the pandemic: challenges and opportunities for national governments

Social, economic, cultural and political processes in Latin America in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the most relevant trends in the energy sector of the region, are analyzed in the study by the Roscongress Foundation.


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