Features of Organizational and Legal Regulation and Modern Development of International Sports Diplomacy

The article presents the main results of a scientific study of the fundamental legal and organizational approaches to the development and improvement of sports diplomacy tools, which is especially important in the modern period of sanctions policy against Russia as a whole and the national sports of our country, including, which is mainly expressed in the suspension of Russian athletes from participating in major international sports competitions related to the issues of the inability to perform under their own flag and the forced need to change sports citizenship, threatening to lose their national identity in the world of big-time sports for quite a long time. In these circumstances, there is an objective need to conduct new scientific research on the specifics of the interaction of Russian sports organizations with international sports committees and sports associations in order to fully return Russian athletes to the international sports arena. The latter is possible through the implementation of methods of such specialized varieties of public diplomacy as popular and especially sports diplomacy, the importance of the development of which is determined by the relevant requirements of the Government of the Russian Federation. In the course of the research, the main methods of legal support of sports diplomacy were also identified, the directions of its development and improvement of legally correct tools were determined. Logical, comparative, empirical, analytical, historical-legal, descriptive and others were used as the main methods of cognition during the research. The scientific novelty of the study was formed by the conclusions, according to which it is advisable, based on the methods outlined in the work, to prepare a textbook on legal regulation and organizational support of international sports diplomacy, which can be the basis for the subsequent creation and practical implementation of a professional development program on these issues.

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