The All-Russia Athletics Federation (ARAF) informed the IAAF's Council, meeting here today, that they would not request a hearing, as was their constitutional right. 

"ARAF confirmed they understood that Council would only accept their reinstatement as an IAAF Member following the recommendation of the IAAF Inspection team who will decide if the verification criteria have been fulfilled. ARAF confirmed they will cooperate fully and actively with the team," the IAAF said in a statement.

"We will cooperate with nominated Commission very actively," ARAF general secretary Mikhail Butov wrote in a letter to the IAAF Council. 

"I  hope for a positive result after certain time and full come back to the IAAF Family.

"I hope that we will receive shortly verification criteria that I requested in my  previous letter.

"Please send to my IAAF colleagues [the] message that we are working very hard now in Russia to change a lot."

If the suspension is not lifted in time, Russia's athletes could miss the opportunity to compete at next year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. 

The ARAF were suspended earlier this month by the IAAF following the recommendation of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Independent Commission, who found evidence that Government officials were involved in helping Russian athletes avoid detection for doping and, in some cases, letting them escape punishment after they had failed tests. 

WADA also stripped of the laboratory in Moscow of its accreditation and declared the Russian Anti-Doping Agency non-compliant. 

The IAAF has set-up a five-member inspection team led by Norwegian anti-doping expert Rune Andersen that will oversee reforms in Russia before allowing them to have their suspension lifted. 

The inspection team also includes Namibia's Frankie Fredericks a four-time Olympic silver medallist, who is now head of the IAAF Athletes' Commission.

At the moment, the inspection team is due to report its findings at the IAAF Council meeting in Cardiff on March 27.

That means Russia will definitely be unable to compete at the IAAF World Indoor Championships, due to be held in Portland between March 17 and 20. 

If, however, the ARAF had appealed against the decision and taken it to the Court of Arbitration for Sport that could have dragged it out by several more months, meaning their chances of participating at Rio 2016 would have been in even greater jeopardy. 

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