Russian sports officials criticizes claims against dancers` music

VANCOUVER, February 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian figure skaters Oksana
Domnina and Maksim Shabalin removed a dubious passage from the soundtrack
of their free dance before the Olympic Games and that is why the claims
against their music are overly late and inconsistent, Valentin Piseyev,
the president of Russia's Figure Skating Federation said in an interview
with Itar-Tass in a comment on the stir around the music.
British pop singer of Indian origin, Sheila Chandra, accused Domnina
and Shabalin of an illegal use of her music in the Aborigenal Dance.
"It was true that the issue /regarding the music/ was on the agenda
and it was resolved at the level of the legal department of Russia's
Olympic Committee," Piseyev said. "We have all the documents confirming
this."
"The fragment was removed and this was done before the Games and
that's why it's unclear why it the talk about it has surfaced again right
during the Games," he said. "The information is overly late and inconsist
and it's all the more so surprising that it's mostly peddled by the
Russian media."
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