MOSCOW, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said Tuesday that the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) had adopted a "political decision" rejecting Russian appeal on non-admission of the country' s athletes to the Rio Paralympics.
"The ruling is not in the legal field. It is more political than legal. There are no reasons for the refusal, but it happened," the TASS news agency quoted Mutko as saying.
Earlier on Tuesday, the CAS said in a statement that it had dismissed the appeal filed by the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) against the decision of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to suspend RPC' s membership.
The IPC took the decision to suspend Russia from participating in the September 7-18 Games following the publication of the McLaren Report and additional information it has since received from the report's author.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) published the independent McLaren Investigation Report on July 18, which said Russian State manipulated the doping control process and recommended IOC to ban the participation of the entire Russian team in the Rio Olympic Games.
But IOC refused to yield and left it up to individual sports associations to decide on the Russian participation. After that 278 Russian athletes have been cleared for the Rio 2016 Olympics.
CARACAS, July 10 (Xinhua) -- The Communist Party of China (CPC) has demonstrated remarkable leadership which has successfully led the country through various profound transformations, Venezuelan analysts say.
In a recent interview with Xinhua, international relations expert Jose Antonio Egido said the CPC's success, and by extension China's success, lies in the party's capacity to plan ahead and adapt its policies without losing sight of its fundamental socialist principles.
"China has seen enormous achievements in development, such as having lifted more than 700 million people out of poverty," Egido said.
Earle Herrera, a deputy of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) in Venezuela's National Assembly, believes the CPC's ability to quickly respond to domestic and global changes stems from its capacity for self-criticism.
To get the Asian giant to where it is today, the CPC leadership deftly adapted policies and management to new circumstances.
The CPC has been able to create high-level administrative teams capable of inventing new policies, said Egido, adding that the party also knows when and where to take a more hands-on approach.
Thanks to "the party's self-criticism, the CPC has known how to renew itself when political and economic circumstances call for it," Herrera said.
Both Herrera and Egido think Venezuela's PSUV can emulate the CPC's success.
Like China, Venezuela needs to develop its economy by strengthening its productive sectors, said Egido.
The South American country should also develop a "capacity for self-criticism, which will allow it to recognize its mistakes, confront them and overcome them," Herrera said.
Starting in 1978, under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, China adopted reforms to boost economic growth by promoting foreign direct investment.
It shows "a party can lead the economy," instead of simply leaving it in the hands of the market or some other forces, Egido noted.
During the devastating 2008 global financial crisis that originated from the United States, the CPC-led government boosted investment in national infrastructure, leading to increased domestic consumption.
"China was able to rectify an export-oriented policy to make major investments in infrastructure, which transformed China's population into a very important target of the industry," Egido said.
The CPC, which this month celebrated the 95th anniversary of its founding on July 1, 1921, leads the world's most populous nation, home to over 1.3 billion people.
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