The Russian Foreign Ministry has called on the United Nations to address what it has described as “ethnicity-based discrimination” within the Olympic movement. In October 2023, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended the Russian Olympic Committee in response to Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts. As a result, Russian athletes can only compete as neutrals in the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics. They also will be barred from participating in the opening ceremony and will not be included in the overall medal standings. However, despite num…