Vote of no-confidence in president of Russian Football Union is unrelated to FIFA World Cup

Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that the vote of no-confidence initiated today against the President of the Russian Football Union, Nikolai Tolstykh, is unrelated to the preparations for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, TASS reports.

Peskov claimed Putin pays a lot of attention to the World Cup.