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World Athletics, the sport's global governing
body, in March handed the federation a $10 million fine for
breaching anti-doping rules.
World Athletics at the time reinstated the process by which
Russian athletes could apply to compete internationally as
neutrals after demonstrating that they train in a doping-free
environment.
It said, however, that this process would again be suspended if
half of the fine was not paid by July 1.
The Russian federation told TASS agency on Thursday that the
fine had not been paid as of July 2, a day after the
federation's president said it did not have sufficient funds to
do so.
The federation was suspended in 2015 after a report commissioned
by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) found evidence of mass
doping among track and field athletes in the country.
Russia is also in the process of appealing a four-year ban on
its athletes competing at major international sporting events
under their flag as punishment for the alteration of laboratory
data.
Its case will be heard by the Lausanne-based Court of
Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in November.
(Reporting by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber; Editing by Toby Davis)
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