{"id":1415756,"date":"2026-07-08T22:40:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/?p=1415756"},"modified":"2026-07-08T22:40:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:40:53","slug":"fivb-lifted-restrictions-on-russian-athletes-what-will-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/fivb-lifted-restrictions-on-russian-athletes-what-will-change\/","title":{"rendered":"FIVB lifted restrictions on Russian athletes: what will change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"34\" data-end=\"231\"><strong data-start=\"34\" data-end=\"231\">The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) has lifted all restrictions on Russian athletes. From now on, representatives of the Russian Federation will be able to participate in official international competitions under the auspices of the organization.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"233\" data-end=\"267\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fivb.com\/fivb-statement-on-eligibility-of-russian-athletes-and-technical-officials-at-fivb-world-and-official-competitions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> by the FIVB press service.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"269\" data-end=\"426\">The federation explained that this decision was made following an initiative by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to review restrictions for Russian athletes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"428\" data-end=\"660\">It is noted that the Russian national teams will also return to the world rankings with the same number of points they had at the time of the suspension. In addition, Russian teams will be able to participate in the Nations League and the 2027 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"662\" data-end=\"935\">At the same time, the FIVB noted that a decision on allowing Russian athletes to perform with national symbols has not yet been made. The federation will consider this issue jointly with the European Volleyball Confederation after consultations with international sports organizations.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"939\" data-end=\"1246\">&#8220;FIVB remains deeply concerned by the ongoing war in Ukraine and strongly condemns all forms of violence. We continue to hope for a peaceful resolution as soon as possible and remain committed to supporting the Ukrainian volleyball community through the FIVB Volleyball Empowerment program,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1248\" data-end=\"1430\">It was previously reported that<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/olimpiyskyy-komitet-rosii-vidnovyly-u-pravakh-mok-ukhvalyv-nove-rishennia\/\">the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has temporarily reinstated the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC)<\/a> . The ban on its activities was in effect from October 12, 2023.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1432\" data-end=\"1638\">It was also reported that despite the IOC&#8217;s decision to temporarily lift the suspension of the OCR&#8217;s membership and the recommendation to review restrictions on Russian athletes, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/fifa-ta-uyefa-ne-planuiut-povertaty-rosiyski-komandy-do-mizhnarodnykh-zmahan\/\">sanctions against the Russian Federation in football remain in force<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1432\" data-end=\"1638\">Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) has lifted all restrictions on Russian athletes. From now on, representatives of the Russian Federation will be able to participate in official international competitions under the auspices of the organization. This was reported by the FIVB press service. The federation explained that this decision was made following an initiative by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1415747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76895],"class_list":["post-1415756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415757,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415756\/revisions\/1415757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1415747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}