Speech at Meeting of the Presidential Council for the Development of Physical Culture and Sport, Excellence in Sports, Preparation and Organisation of the 2014 Sochi XXII Winter Olympics and XI Paralympics and the XXVII World University Games in 2013 in Kazan.Part 2
October 23, 2009
Kazan
Выступление на Совете по развитию физической культуры и спорта, спорта высших достижений, подготовке и проведению XXII Олимпийских зимних игр и XI Паралимпийских зимних игр 2014 года в Сочи, XXVII Всемирной летней универсиады 2013 года в Казани.
23 октября 2009 года
Казань
This absolutely applies to universities as well it is exactly the same kind of situation. A university that does not have its own facilities for conducting athletics classes is not a real institution of higher education. Unfortunately, we have some institutions like this, especially among the new private higher education institutions that often have nothing but a registered address where diplomas are issued and signed and then mailed out from. These diplomas are not worth the paper they are printed on, not to mention the fact that the years in a university is the very time in life when young people should be actively engaging in athletics and sports.
Today, 80 percent of our schoolchildren do not engage in sufficient amounts of physical activity. This is a very unfortunate statistic. Two thirds of schoolchildren have chronic diseases. According to the data in front of me, only 10 percent of high school graduates can really be considered healthy.
Clearly, the evaluation criteria have evolved somewhat. Twenty years ago, we did not have the same kind of medical equipment, so its hard to be certain that we are less healthy today than we were then, but in any event, these figures are quite alarming.
What does all this mean? We must do everything we can to make sports accessible to the overwhelming majority of Russias children and teenagers. I want to say this again, here in this room. We are having a difficult year, which was especially hard in the beginning, but nevertheless, we are overcoming our difficulties, and we have opportunities to continue creating sports facilities even during this difficult time facilities which are imperative for childrens and adolescents athletics, and for sports and physical education overall.
When I spoke at the opening of the forum today, I said that every region must have a corresponding section in the budget, which must be regarded as a priority.
The same is true of summer recreation. Currently, our so-called summer recreation is available to only 6 million or about one half of all school children in Russia.
Right now, we are implementing a whole range of major federal programmes, including the federal target programme for developing sports and athletics. This programme spans the 2006-2012 time frame. It involves building a large number of gymnasiums, swimming pools, and stadiums. This year, we built about 200 sports facilities. Another 170 are expected to be opened by the end of this year. We must do everything we can to ensure that this happens.
Next year will be difficult in this regard as well. The programme has been reduced because of budget cuts, but we need to do eour best to strengthen this federal target programme through other opportunities. If we see opportunities at the federal level, we will certainly take advantage of them.
Still, we should try to reinforce this programme in other ways: through extra-budgetary financing and monetary contributions from the regions. I am not going to specifically elaborate on the fact that nearly all of these programmes are being implemented locally, since this is obvious.
Another important matter is the fact that businesses should be helping to create sports infrastructure. There are many good examples of this. In recent years, Russian companies have taken an interest in sports, and private donations are currently funding sports facilities, but this kind of work needs to be further intensified.
The large social programmes are looking very well right now. But it is clear that Gazprom, for example, has better opportunities for them than most other entities. When I was a member of Gazproms board of directors, I specifically supervised the Gazprom for Children project. I want to emphasise again that Gazprom is a large company, but even large companies often do nothing. Meanwhile, this programme [Gazprom for Children] allowed over 100 sports facilities to be built in many regions. And this is sure to continue.
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