MOSCOW. - Armenian and Russian boxing teams will be accommodated separately from other teams at the World Championships which opens in Baku on September 26.

Under the agreement with the Azerbaijani Boxing Federation, Armenian and Russian teams will be accommodated separately at a specially guided sports base, executive director of Russia’s Boxing Federation Yevgeniy Sudakov told Russian Ves Sport agency.  He explained that Russian team features two boxers bearing Armenian names.

“The reasons, obviously, are of political character. Although there is no open ethno-political conflict between Armenians and Azerbaijanis, we decided to secure our team from possible incidents,” he said, 1news.az reports.

Russian team features David Hayrapetyan (49kg) and Misha Aloyan (52kg) – both of Armenian origin.