Bilalov may be dismissed as Vice President of ROC next week

Vice President of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Ahmed Bilalov may be dismissed next week, Interfax cites Alexander Zhukov, head of the ROC, Vice Speaker of Parliament (United Russia).

Vice Premier Dmitry Kozak said on February 7 that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered dismissal of Bilalov. The dismissal had been provoked by a two-day inspection Putin had had at the Olympic facilities of Sochi. The president had criticized functionaries responsible for construction of Russkiye Gorki.

Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov noted that it was not a demonstrative punishment.