The landscape is clearly clearing up in Russian athletics, less than two weeks before the elections for the presidency of the Federation (RusAF), scheduled for February 28 in Moscow. Two candidates for the top position have just withdrawn their candidacy: Mikhail Butov, the former secretary general of the RusAF and former member of the IAAF Council, and Yuliya Tarasenko, the former first vice-president of the RusAF. Both embodied the troubled past of Russian athletics, still suspended by World Athletics. To date, five people remain candidates for the presidency of RusAF: Evgeniy Yurchenko, member of the board of directors of the United Aircraft Corporation, athletes' agent Mikhail Gusev, head coach of the Russian national team , Yuriy Borzakovskiy, former sprinter Andrey Shlyapnikov, ex-member of the RusAF presidium, and finally the current president of the Moscow Athletics Federation, Oleg Kurbatov.
