{"id":1014637,"date":"2022-03-08T16:10:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/08\/vladimir-putin-removed-from-all-positions-in-the-international\/"},"modified":"2022-03-08T16:10:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:10:34","slug":"vladimir-putin-removed-from-all-positions-in-the-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/08\/vladimir-putin-removed-from-all-positions-in-the-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin removed from all positions in the International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"401\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/PUTIN-750x432-1-696x401.jpg\"   alt=\"Vladimir Putin\" title=\"Vladimir Putin\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vladimir Putin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin and a Russian businessman have been removed from all positions in the International Judo Federation (IJF) in the latest sporting rebuke following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, announced in a brief statement, comes after Putin, a black belt who has co-authored the book titled \u201cJudo: History, Theory, Practice\u201d, was suspended as IJF honorary president last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe International Judo Federation announces that Mr Vladimir Putin and Mr Arkady Rotenberg have been removed from all positions held in the International Judo Federation,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Billionaire businessman Arkady Rotenberg had been on the IJF executive committee as a development manager since 2013.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The federation did not mention Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine but it said on February 27 it was suspending Putin as honorary IJF president \u201cin light of the ongoing war conflict in Ukraine\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Putin was also stripped of his honorary taekwondo black belt conferred in 2013 by World Taekwondo and a FINA Order, awarded to him in 2014 by swimming\u2019s global body.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of what Putin has called \u201ca special military operation\u201d in Ukraine, Russian and Belarusian teams and athletes have found themselves frozen out from international competitions across sports. 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The decision, announced in a brief statement, comes after Putin, a black belt who has co-authored the book titled \u201cJudo: History, Theory, Practice\u201d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1014638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2444,5781,5782,5783,5784],"class_list":["post-1014637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-international","tag-positions","tag-putin","tag-removed","tag-vladimir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}