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Russia Confirms Participation In Winter Olympics 2022 In Beijing Amidst Political Boycott

In a different turn of events, Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged to go to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, making him the major western leader to confirm his participation at the games.
Beijing Continues To Deny Human Rights Abuse In The Country
His comments arrived in a video call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who said he anticipated a “get-together”. It comes as a developing number of nations have joined a discretionary blacklist of the games.
This is because of supposed denials of human rights in China, which Beijing denies.
“I might want to bring up that we generally support each other with regards to worldwide games participation, including our situation against endeavors to politicize sports and the Olympic Movement,” said Putin in a statement.
China has been blamed for slaughter in its suppression of the overwhelmingly Muslim Uyghur minority in Xinjiang – a claim it has more than once dismissed.
China’s concealment of political opportunities in Hong Kong and worries for Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, who was not found openly for quite a long time later she blamed a top government official for rape in November are likewise among the discretionary issues that have emerged, the report said.
The US, UK and Australia and Canada have said their undeniable level authorities won’t go to the colder time of year games, which will occur in February, subsequently.
German Chancellor Threatens Russia Over Ukraine Invasion
Meanwhile, the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz cautioned Wednesday that Russia would pay a “high price” assuming it attacked Ukraine, talking in front of an EU culmination.

“Nowadays we are looking with extraordinary worry at the security circumstance on the Russian-Ukrainian boundary,” Scholz said in his first discourse to parliament as chancellor.

“Any infringement of regional trustworthiness will have a value, an excessive cost,” he said as Western powers blame Russia for arranging an intrusion of its neighbor and caution of an enormous composed assents reaction should Moscow assault.

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