According to the head of the World Athletics working group, Rune Andersen, who reports to TASS, the organization’s council has instructed to review the procedure for issuing neutral status, which the council began to use since June 2016.
He noted that for the period of review of the procedure, all applications received and the acceptance of new ones will be suspended.
VFLA's membership in the International Association of Athletics Federations was suspended in November 2015, and since then the suspension has been extended 12 times.
November 22, it became known that Dmitry Shlyakhtin was temporarily removed from the post of president of the VFLA in connection with the investigation of the doping case of high jumper Danil Lysenko.
It was previously reported that World Athletics has suspended the recovery process of VFLA.