Vitaly Leontievich Mutko

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Vitaly Mutko (2018)

Witali Leontjewitsch Mutko ( Russian Виталий Леонтьевич Мутко , English Vitaly Mutko ; born December 8, 1958 in Kurinskaja , Krasnodar region , Soviet Union ) is a Russian politician and football official. He has been a Vice Prime Minister since 2016. He was also President of Zenit Saint Petersburg (1995–2003), the Premjer League (2001–2003) of the Russian Football Association (2005–2009 and 2015–2018) and the FIFA Executive Committee (2009–2017), Vice Mayor of Saint Petersburg (1992–1996), member of the Federation Council (2003–2008) and Russian Minister for Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy (2008–2016).

Career

In 1979 he was accepted by the CPSU and completed his training in what was then Leningrad and studied until 1999. In 1990 he became President of the Soviet and in 1991 head of the administration of Kirov Raion before he was accepted into the government of Saint Petersburg as Vice Mayor in 1992. In the same year he was elected to the board of directors of Zenit Saint Petersburg, in 1995 as president; During his time he was able to win Gazprom as a sponsor of the club and lead it from the second division to the European Cup .

Mutko began his political career at the national level, like many Russian politicians of the Putin / Medvedev era, as a former member of the city administration in St. Petersburg. From 2003 he led the Federation Council's youth and sport commission. During the tenure of President Dmitry Medvedev, he was Minister of Sport from 2008 to 2012. The Russian Court of Auditors has brought criminal charges against him for fraud and favoring relatives in connection with the stay of the Russian delegation at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In May 2012, he was confirmed as Minister of Sport by the subsequent President. Mutko was on the supervisory board of the Organizing Committee for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi .

Although the Russian Swimming Association also provided athletes to the two competitions of the mixed duet in synchronized swimming newly established by FINA on the occasion of the 2015 World Swimming Championships taking place in their own country - they won a gold and a silver medal - Sports Minister Mutko was indignant about the participation of men, a decision he considered stupid and flawed. "From my point of view, synchronized swimming is a sport only for women."

As Minister of Sport, he was responsible for the state doping described in the 2016 McLaren Report .

In October 2016, Mutko became Vice Prime Minister responsible for sports, tourism and youth policy.

In May 2018 he became Vice Prime Minister for Building Supervision and Regions. During the publicly broadcast announcement by Prime Minister Medvedev, laughter could be heard among United Russia party attendees. Jokes were circulating on the internet about how Mutko managed to stay in power. The Novaya Gazeta won a positive side from the nomination, since in the construction industry with its maximum seepage of taxpayers' money someone could be asked who stays away from the intrigues of others.

Doping scandals

Mutko in 2017

In the WDR documentary "Secret Doping - Showdown for Russia" from June 2016, the ARD / WDR doping expert Hajo Seppelt corroborated the suspicion with previously unpublished documents that the Russian government and sports minister Vitali Mutko were directly involved in the cover-up of state-controlled doping was.

In an interview with the sports news agency R-Sport in September 2017, Mutko vehemently rejected the state's involvement in systematic doping and instead accused the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) of referring to Grigory Rodchenkov , the man who, as the former head of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory, had made public the systematic doping practices in Russia that contributed to the whole affair: "We realized that Rodchenkov himself violated all the rules, regulations and standards of the Wada. We fired him . They (Wada) had control over him (Rodchenkov) and gave him the work permit. But now the Russian state is being held responsible. "

The International Olympic Committee classified Mutko as the central head of the systematic manipulation and banned him for life from the Olympic Games on December 5, 2017, the ban was lifted on July 11, 2019. At the end of December 2017, Mutko announced that it would be resigning from the leadership of the Russian Football Association for the coming half-year leading up to the 2018 World Cup in Russia. This was seen as a consequence of the doping allegations against Russia. For the transitional period, the current association general secretary Alexander Alajew should take over the office. Shortly afterwards, Mutko also gave up the post of chief organizer of the World Cup. At the beginning of June the association leader made it clear: «Mutko is our president. He was never gone. "

Web links

Commons : Witali Leontjewitsch Mutko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b FC Kremlin. Republic, accessed June 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ spiegel.de: Mutko resigns as Russian football boss (December 19, 2018) , accessed on December 24, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c Vitaly Mutko. In: Who's Who? Russia Profile.org, archived from the original on July 12, 2011 ; Retrieved April 27, 2010 .
  4. ↑ a b Vitaly Mutko. In: Supervisory Board. Organizing Committee of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi, 2010, accessed on April 27, 2010 .
  5. ↑ a b c Mutko was not built immediately , Novaya Gazeta, June 2, 2018
  6. ^ The notorious Minister of Sports , Tages-Anzeiger, June 17, 2016, accessed on July 2, 2016
  7. ↑ Vollgefessene Kater , Spiegel from August 16, 2016, accessed on July 2, 2016
  8. ↑ Russia outraged by “male mermaids” , Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 24, 2015, accessed on August 11, 2015
  9. ↑ Mutko no longer Russian Minister of Sport sueddeutsche.de October 19, 2016
  10. ↑ Russia's Mutko set to lose sport in new cabinet post , Reuters, May 7, 2018
  11. ↑ Dispute with Rossija TV - ARD / WDR doping expert: "A row of abstruse questions" , WDR from June 14, 2016, accessed on June 18, 2016
  12. ↑ Мутко: Россия никогда не согласится с обвинениями в государственной поддержке допинга. Retrieved November 16, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Welt.de: IOC excludes Putin's World Cup organizer from all Olympic Games , accessed on December 6, 2017.
  14. ↑ CAS lifts the ban on Russia's ex-minister Mutko , accessed on July 11, 2019.
  15. ↑ Russian doping affair Mutko resigns as football boss - his influence remains. Spiegel Online, accessed December 26, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Mutko is also stepping down as chief organizer of the 2018 World Cup
personal data
SURNAME Mutko, Vitaly Leontievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Мутко, Виталий Леонтьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician and football official
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Kurinskaja , Rajon Apsheron , Krasnodar region , Soviet Union