{"id":2845,"date":"2022-03-05T16:04:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T20:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2022-03-05T16:04:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T20:04:46","slug":"rsgb-statement-the-russian-federation-and-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/05\/rsgb-statement-the-russian-federation-and-belarus\/","title":{"rendered":"RSGB statement: the Russian Federation and Belarus&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 organized\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GB2RS News Team\u00a0|\u00a0March 4, 2022 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/05\/rsgb-statement-the-russian-federation-and-belarus\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}