Belarus Olympic Committee
Created in 1991, the NOC RB (Belarusian: НОК РБ), was charged with selecting athletes to represent Belarus in the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, enforcing anti-doping laws and promoting sporting activity inside Belarus.During that same year, Belarus competed in the 1992 Summer and Winter Olympics as part of the Unified Team made of former Soviet republics (except the Baltic states).Also in 1993, Vladimir Ryzhenkov, who was at the time the Belarus Minister for Sport and Tourism, was elected to the post of President of the NOC RB.[1] On August 9, 2021, the Belarus Olympic Committee was added to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List by the United States Department of the Treasury.[2] In addition, the presidents of the NOC Alexander and Viktor Lukashenko are under the sanctions of the United States,[3] the European Union,[4] the United Kingdom,[5] Switzerland[6] and Canada,[7] while Dzmitry Baskau, a member of the executive board, is banned from entering Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.