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Ecclestone confirms Russian GP will happen
Bernie Ecclestone with Vladimir Putin
Formula 1 has no argument with Russia and the country's debut grand prix will go ahead as planned in October despite the crisis in Ukraine, Bernie Ecclestone said on the first day of the Belgian Grand Prix weekend.
'We have a contract. Our friends there, they are happy with the contract so we'll be there,' the sport's 83-year-old commercial supremo told Reuters in the Belgian Grand Prix paddock.
'If people have got arguments with Russia, maybe they have (issues). I don't know. We haven't got any.'
Sochi, the Black Sea resort which hosted the Winter Olympics in February, is due to stage the first Russian Grand Prix on October 12.
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