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Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko left the post of chairman of the organizing committee of the Russian Football Championship "Russia-2018". This is reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the organization.

The Organizing Committee of Russia-2018 with regret accepted the news of the decision of Vitaly Mutko to leave the post of chairman of the organization. Combine the post of general director and chairman of the Russian Organizing Committee of 2018 from the current moment will be Alexei Sorokin, who is also the deputy chairman of the supervisory board of the organization. Changes in the leadership of the Russia-2018 Organizing Committee will not be affected during the preparation of the World Cup for the World Football, ”the report said.

"Sorokin will be the chairman of the Russia-2018 organizing committee, I will focus on working in the government. Sorokin will perform the functions of both the chairman of the organizing committee and our representative in FIFA. There are still many work, but I’m absolutely sure that everything will be prepared on time and we will transfer all the documents to FIFA on May 30," Mutko said R-Sport agency.

On Monday, Mutko, a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Russian Football Union, said that he was suspended for six months to work by the President of the RFU. I.O. The president of the organization was appointed by its general director Alexander Alaev.

The fact that Mutko would leave the post of President of the RFU, Kommersant wrote at the end of last week. Then, however, it was argued that the official intends to resign, and not suspend the work for a while. One of the sources of the newspaper explained the upcoming departure of Mutko with the pressure of the International Association of Football Federations (FIFA). It was claimed that this structure had never made complaints about Mutko, however, after the executive committee of the International Olympic Committee, which was adopted on December 5, a decision on a lifelong ban on accreditation at the Games of FIFA has changed. The International Association, said the interlocutor of the publication, "persistently recommended that the disqualified Mutko leave the post in the Russian football union."

The source of Kommersant also did not rule out that the reports of FIFA were affected that the doping scandal could affect Russian football.