{"id":3795,"date":"2022-03-14T08:42:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T08:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/?p=3795"},"modified":"2022-03-14T08:42:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T08:42:43","slug":"rsgb-statement-the-russian-federation-and-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/?p=3795","title":{"rendered":"RSGB statement: the Russian Federation and Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"post-title single\">\u00a0<\/h1>\n<div class=\"meta single\"><span class=\"meta-author\"><a title=\"Posts by GB2RS News Team\" href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/author\/carolmeredith\/\" rel=\"author\">GB2RS News Team<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"meta-date\">March 4, 2022<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The normal stance of amateur radio is that it is apolitical. However, it is clear that recent actions by the Russian Federation and their military have crossed a line and the RSGB cannot in this instance remain neutral.<\/p>\n<p>The policy of the RSGB is that we will follow the actions of the mainstream sporting bodies with regard to all activities of a competitive nature such as contests and ARDF. Russian and Belarusian radio amateurs are therefore currently ineligible to participate in any event that is organised\/sponsored by the RSGB.<\/p>\n<p>The policy of the RSGB in commercial activities is that we will refrain from trade with Russia and Belarus until further notice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RSGB Board<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>For RSGB Contests, until further notice, all logs received from stations in the Russian Federation or Belarus will be treated as check logs.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p class=\"cats\"><strong>Category<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/category\/front-page-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Front Page News<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/category\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/\" rel=\"category tag\">GB2RS Headlines<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/category\/news\/rsgb-notices\/\" rel=\"category tag\">RSGB Notices<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3796,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions\/3796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}