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FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 2, 2018 file photo, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Moscow, Russia. Mutko, who was Russia's Sports Minister during the doping-tainted Winter Olympics in Sochi, has won an appeal against his lifetime ban from the games. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Russian deputy PM Mutko wins Olympic doping appeal

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Mutko resigns as president of Russian soccer federation

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FILE - In this Tuesday, April 25, 2017 file photo, Russia's deputy prime minister in charge of sport, tourism and youth policies Vitaly Mutko attends a news conference after the Russia 2018 LOC Board meeting with FIFA participation in St. Petersburg, Russia. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko, who was banned from the Olympics for life over his country's doping scandals, has returned to a senior role in Russian football. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

Mutko returns to Russian soccer body after stepping aside

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Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Moscow in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. Mutko says Russian athletes whose doping bans were lifted deserve to be treated as &quot;clean and honest&quot; at the Pyeongchang Olympics. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Mutko: Russians deserve to be treated as ‘clean and honest’

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 25, 2017 file photo, Vitaly Mutko, Russian Federation Deputy Prime Minister speaks to the media during a news conference following Russian Football Union meeting in Moscow, Russia. A new generation of young, talented and above all clean Russian athletes will compete at next month's Winter Olympics, Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko said in an interview Saturday Jan. 20, 2018. (AP Photo, File)

Mutko says Russia’s Olympic athletes will be young, clean

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

20 more Russian athletes, Mutko appeal Olympic doping bans

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FILE - In this file photo taken on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, Vitaly Mutko, Russian Federation Deputy Prime Minister &amp; Russia 2018 WCup Local Organising Committee Chairman, at an event in Moscow, Russia. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko has filed an appeal against his lifetime ban from the Olympics. Mutko, a former sports minister, was deeply implicated in Russia's doping plot at the 2014 Sochi Olympics by two IOC commissions and a World Anti-Doping Agency investigation. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Mutko files sports court appeal against lifetime Olympic ban

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FILE In this Tuesday, May 24, 2016 file photo an employee of the Russia's national drug-testing laboratory holds a vial in Moscow, Russia. A Russian doping whistleblower’s lawyer says FIFA has made no attempt to gain information about “many” footballers embroiled in the widespread conspiracy. Lawyer Jim Walden told The Associated Press that Grigory Rodchenkov’s has “information about Russian footballers being protected by the state sponsored doping system.” (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file)

Lawyer: FIFA not seeking whistleblower’s Russia doping info

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE In this file photo taken on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, Vitaly Mutko, Russian Federation Deputy Prime Minister &amp; Russia 2018 WCup Local Organising Committee Chairman, speaks with press during the opening of the WCup Fan ID distribution center in Moscow, Russia.Vitaly Mutko, a Russian government official who has been dogged by allegations of involvement in doping, has temporarily stepped down as president of the Russian Football Union, a move apparently intended to deflect international criticism as Russia prepares to host the 2018 World Cup. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

2018 World Cup chief Mutko quits; still involved in planning

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

FILE In this file photo taken on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, Vitaly Mutko, Russian Federation Deputy Prime Minister &amp; Russia 2018 WCup Local Organising Committee Chairman, speaks with press during the opening of the WCup Fan ID distribution center in Moscow, Russia.Vitaly Mutko, a Russian government official who has been dogged by allegations of involvement in doping, has temporarily stepped down as president of the Russian Football Union, a move apparently intended to deflect international criticism as Russia prepares to host the 2018 World Cup. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Mutko steps down as president of Russian Football Union

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2017 file photo FIFA president Gianni Infantino, right, and Vitaly Mutko, Russian Federation Deputy Prime Minister &amp; Local Organising Committee Chairman attend the 2018 soccer World Cup draw in the Kremlin in Moscow. On Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017 IOC imposed a lifetime Olympic ban on Mutko. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file)

Olympic ban for Russia’s World Cup organizing chief

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

Vitaly Mutko, Russian Federation Deputy Prime Minister &amp; Local Organising Committee Chairman reacts walking inside a metro train branded for the 2018 World Cup during a ceremony in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russian Deputy PM Mutko defiant about Olympic scandal

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

A girl poses for a photo in front of a clock counting down to the first match of the 2018 World Cup, which is installed on Manezh Square, outside the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017. The Final Draw for the 2018 FIFA World Cup will take place on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017, at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow. (AP Photo/Denis Tyrin)

The Latest: Lack of blockbuster opener won’t harm World Cup

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FILE - In this file photo dated Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, Sergei Chudinov of Russia during the men's skeleton competition at the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Sergei Chudinov placed fifth in skeleton at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, but has failed a doping test and according to an IOC statement issued Monday Nov. 27, 2017, Chudinov is banned from all future Olympics. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, FILE)

Report: Whistleblower diary strengthens case against Russia

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

Russia admits delays at some World Cup sites but no crisis

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FILE In this Sunday, June 25, 2017 file photo, spectators sit in the stands during the Confederations Cup, Group B soccer match between Germany and Cameroon, at the Fisht Stadium in Sochi, Russia. After years of controversy, Russian officials think their World Cup has weathered the storm. Questions have receded over the legitimacy of the 2010 vote that gave Russia the tournament, the stadiums are either finished or nearing completion, and the Confederations Cup is going smoothly.(AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis/File)

With a year to go, Russia’s World Cup faces challenges

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, FIFA President Gianni Infantino, right, Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko, second left, inspect the newly-built FC Krasnodar Stadium in the southern city of Krasnodar, Russia, Tuesday, May 23, 2017. (Sergei Karpukhin/Pool photo via AP)

Russia set to reclaim a seat on the FIFA Council

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Russia accuses FIFA of overcharging on World Cup TV rights

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FILE - In this Sunday, July 24, 2016, file photo, Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko speaks to the media in Moscow, Russia. People with knowledge of the decision say Russia World Cup head Vitaly Mutko has been barred from seeking re-election to FIFA's top decision-making body after failing an eligibility check. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Russia World Cup head Vitaly Mutko barred from FIFA Council

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this pool photo taken on Friday, Nov. 25, 2016 Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, listens to FIFA President Gianni Infantino, center, as Vitaly Mutko, deputy premiership in charge of sport, tourism and youth policies, right, walks out during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Players from Russia's under-21 national soccer team had suspicious drug-test samples covered up, emails released by a World Anti-Doping Agency investigation show. Another case in the Russian league was allegedly covered up by then-Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, who is also in charge of the country's World Cup preparations. (Maxim Shipenkov/Pool Photo via AP)

Russia accused of doping cover-up in national soccer teams

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press