The Silk Way Rally's Russia–Mongolia–China route for 2024 has been abandoned, and the race will now begin in Tomsk, Russia, and end in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar.
A project by Bellingcat, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, and The Insider found the Silk Way Rally under race director Bulat Yanborisov has been used to push Russia's foreign affairs and GRU's assassination efforts.