Alexey Nuzhdov: “In eight years of work at the RRF, I have learned to understand and compare: there has never been such a large budget as this year”

Former Vice-President of the Russian Biathlon Union (RBU) Alexei Nuzhdov in an interview with , he told how he was going to bail out the budget of the regional federations if he won the election of the leader of the RRF.

On October 14, a conference on reports and elections of the RBU was held in Moscow. The current head of the organization Viktor Maygurov was reelected to his post, receiving 31 votes, 23 delegates voted for Nuzhdov. Nuzhdov retains the post of head of the Moscow Region Biathlon Federation.

– Your recent electoral program was noted as aimed at helping the regions. Where were they going to get the money from? And what prevents the current leadership of the RRF from supporting the regions in the same way?

– Everything was planned in the program, it is open data. In eight years of work at the RRF, I have learned to understand and compare: there has never been such a large budget as this year. Much converged, including the appearance of a strategic sponsor. In the spring, I remember, the plans started from three options for the RRF budget: 100, 150 and 200 million rubles. The sponsor completely closed the average of these amounts, but the support of Gazprom and the deductions of the unified gambling regulator were preserved. As a result, the budget turned out to be more than 300 million, which exceeds the wildest expectations. A few years ago, even two hundred years was considered space.

On this basis, I included in the electoral program the intention to pay each region one million a year. Despite the fact that we have 55 biathlon federations. I myself went through difficult times in the Moscow region, I know that this money would definitely be used. In the regions, every penny is expensive, sponsors are the exception, not the rule, everything is based on enthusiasts, Nuzhdov told .