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The Ministry of Sports will receive new powers during the reform. This was stated by Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko, Interfax reports .

"In general, we proceed from the fact that the president determines the structure and management of the federal authorities. In our history it has already been: from 2008 to 2012 there was a Ministry of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy. Two agencies worked as part of it. I believe that the Ministry of Sports will be added a number of powers," the minister said.

According to Mutko, now the Ministry of Sports does not have excessive powers. “I will not quote anyone now, but some talk about some excessive powers of the ministry. This is stupidity. The ministry does not have any excessive powers. I have one authority today - to receive on the head, especially when we have something bad in the country,” the head of the department noted.

Mutko emphasized that the Ministry of Sports should not be ashamed of its work. "We did serious work. We completed all the main indicators of the development of the industry," the minister said.

At the same time, Mutko called people far from the development of sports, who argue that the Ministry of Sports will be transformed into an agency. “If someone has a desire to lower the status of sports to some agency, as they are already said, then I don’t think that they will succeed, people don’t understand at all,” said Mutko. “Isn’t a member of the government in the regions will be able to reach out to the governor? Sometimes you won’t reach them.”

On Tuesday, President Vladimir Putin said that significant adjustments will be made to the Russian sports management system. "Of course, new formats will also appear in the system of sports of sports itself. I think none of those present will object to interact with the international sports federations, international Olympic and Paralympic committees, not so much the executive authorities, but above all the national Olympic and Paralympic committees, all -Russian sports federations," Putin said at a meeting of the presidential of physical education and physical education and physical education sports.

In addition, the president made the idea to consolidate the curator of sports, youth policy and tourism for one deputy prime minister. “The government will make specific, including personnel, proposals, in the near future,” the head of state assured. Now the curators of these sports, youth policy and tourism are divided between two deputy prime ministers. Arkady Dvorkovich is responsible for the sport, and Olga Golodets for the other two spheres.

On Wednesday, the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov specified that Putin did not say anything about the merger of the relevant departments or the creation of new ones. "In this case, it is probably worth clarifying that the president had the appropriateness of the curatorial unit at the level of deputy prime minister in the office of ministers. That is, the Deputy Prime Minister, who would oversee the block of issues such as sports, youth policy and tourism," the spokeswoman said. "The president did not say anything and did not mean the merger of departments or the creation of any new ones departments or re -profiled, reformatting available. "

On Tuesday, Sovetsky Sport, citing a source in the government apparatus, said that the Ministry of Sports is supposed to be abolished . In addition, the liquidation is expected by Rosmolodezh and Rosturism. The functions that were performed by the Ministry of Sports and these two departments will be transferred to the newly created agency, which will be in direct subordination of the government.

RIA Novosti reported that the current president of the Russian Olympic Committee, Alexander Zhukov, can lead a new structure. After reorganization, Mutko can leave this sphere and take the post of Deputy Prime Minister, the agency sources said.

The Ministry of Sports has existed in the current form since 2012. It is formed just after the allocation of Rosmolodezh and Rosturism from the structure of the Ministry of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy. Mutko headed this department since 2008; After the section of the old ministry, he became the head of the Ministry of Sports.