ExclusiveSporting sanctions for Russia: "There will be a before and an after for these bodies" (Lukas Aubin)

"This is an exceptional situation. Such strong sanctions (by sports bodies against Russia) were hardly foreseeable, especially since bodies like FIFA or the IOC tend to practice an 'apolitical policy'. There will be a before and after for these bodies, we can speak of a precedent or a form of jurisprudence," said Lukas Aubin, PhD in Contemporary Slavic Studies, specialist in the geopolitics of Russia and sport, to News Tank Football, on 01/03/2022.

"With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we are witnessing something that we thought impossible since the Second World War, and in the face of this, the world of sport seems to have agreed to sanction Russia in a major way. Not all bodies have yet imposed sanctions, but the fact that the most powerful in world sport are doing so is already a major event," said the author of the book "La Sportokratura* sous Vladimir Poutine" (Sportokratura under Vladimir Putin).

"Sport is part of everyone's life on the planet, whether we like it or not. No Russian can ignore the fact that the Russian national team will not participate in the next football…