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RIOU Supervisory Board approved the successful completion of the first stage of the University startup: during the first year all organizational, legal and human resources issues necessary for the project launching were created. RIOU started with the preparation of constituent documents and registration of the University and continued with its international presentation during Vancouver Games and signing of the Memorandum of Understanding with International Paralympic Committee.

The next stage of RIOU’s development began in June with the laying of the first foundation stone of the University compound in Sochi in the presence of the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge. The University will focus on educational issues along with the preservation, research and promotion of international and Russian Olympic experience.

Currently, the University creates educational programmes for the staff of the Organizing Committee “Sochi 2014”, while developing programmes for volunteers and elaborating educational materials for secondary and higher school as well as programmes for popularization of Olympic history and ideology.

The Supervisory Board of RIOU approved changes in the system of the University governance which reflect new tasks and activity directions in the international and educational spheres. Ivan Linkov, who is leaving his post as RIOU’s Chief Executive Officer, will focus on projects of research and preservation of Olympic legacy. In prospect RIOU is to become leading international research centre for preservation, adaptation and study of Olympic and Paralympic movement experience. The Supervisory Board appointed professor Lev Belousov Chief Executive Officer of RIOU. Professor Belousov is Chairman of the Department of Modern and Contemporary European and American History at the Moscow State University.