Biography. What kind of business were the relatives and friends of the Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko engaged in Mutko biography

Working under Sobchak as deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, Vitaly Leontievich established friendly relations not only with Vladimir Putin, but also with Valentina Matvienko, for whom he headed the headquarters during the elections of the governor of St. Petersburg in 2000

Vitaly Mutko

Place of work: Government of the Russian Federation

Positions: 1992-1996 – Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg and Chairman of the City Committee on Social Issues. In 2001-05 - President of the Russian Football Premier League. In 2005-08 - President of the Russian Football Union. In 2003-08 Member of the Federation Council from St. Petersburg, Chairman of the Committee on Youth and Sports. Since May 2008 - Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation.

Participation in business:

In 1997-2003 was the president of ZAO Football Club Zenit. With the assistance of Vladimir Putin, who began his Moscow career, he managed to attract Taimuraz Bolloev to finance the club OJSC Baltika Brewing Company, then a stake of 25.01% of shares was sold to a Gazprom branch - the Lentransgaz company, 12% of shares - to OJSC Bank Petrovsky." In 2001, with the takeover of Petrovsky Bank by MDM Bank, 10% of the shares went to ZAO Mineral and Chemical Company EuroChem, owned by the bank. Another 2% was acquired by the former head of Petrovsky, Yuri Golovin, who became the first deputy chairman of the board of MDM Bank. In 2003, 26% of the club's shares were sold to Vladimir Kogan's St. Petersburg Bank, after which the first vice-president of this bank, David Traktovenko, replaced Mutko as president of the club. Other stakes were controlled by Vyacheslav Kantor's Acron OJSC and Karavay OJSC in St. Petersburg. In 2005, shares of Lentransgaz and Bank St. Petersburg in the amount of 51.01% ended up with OJSC Gazprombank (the actual owner is the leading shareholder of Bank Rossiya, Yuri Kovalchuk), the former head of Lentransgaz became the president of the club. Sergei Fursenko (Kovalchuk’s closest companion). He later replaced Mutko as head of the Russian Football Union.

Vitaly Mutko himself was also a co-owner of the club - as of March 1999, he owned 2.59% of the shares of ZAO FC Zenit. At the moment, there is no open information about whether the Minister of Sports is a shareholder of the FC.

During the period when Mutko led the ZAO Football Club Zenit, many famous players and coaches appeared on the team, thanks to significantly increased funding. Zenit was able to achieve significant success (2nd place at the 2003 Russian Championship, 3rd place at the 2001 Russian Championship, winning the 1998/99 Russian Cup). However, information has appeared more than once that the results of some matches were allegedly negotiable. Similar scandals plagued Zenit and the Russian football team when Mutko headed the Russian Football Union. The loudest of them took place in 2008, when Zenit reached the UEFA Cup final. According to the newspaper El Pais, before the match, the Spanish police recorded a conversation between crime bosses Gennady Petrov and Leonid Khristoforov, who are in Spain. In the conversation, Petrov said that he bought Zenit a victory in the quarterfinals over Bayern Munich with a score of 4:0, and advised Khristoforov to bet on the St. Petersburg team in the bookmaker’s office. Although, according to the newspaper, the conversation took place before the match, no investigation was carried out.

Together with Alexey Vladimirovich Blinov, Mutko is the owner of Nash Zenit Newspaper LLC, which, in turn, established the club weekly of the Zenit team.

In 1994, Mutko, who then held the position of vice-mayor of St. Petersburg for social policy, together with Nikolai Fedorovich Ivlev, Sergei Lvovich Rogozhin, Alexander Vasilyevich Sylko, Yuri Viktorovich Golovin and other individuals and legal entities established the Public Charitable Movement of St. Petersburg "Golden Pelican". The main activities of the movement were to provide assistance to disabled children, orphans, wheelchair users, elderly people, disabled people and war veterans, the poor, as well as to promote the ideas of charity and social responsibility of business.

The founder, Nikolai Ivlev, is now the president of Zhilsotsstroy, a large construction concern in St. Petersburg. Ivlev is also the founder of many legal entities, including the Russian Icon Foundation, where among the founders, according to SPARK-Interfax, the companies of the twice-convicted St. Petersburg businessman Alexander Ebralidze were previously listed.

The founder, Yuri Golovin, was the chairman of the board of JSCB Petrovsky Narodny Bank at the time of the creation of the Golden Pelican. In August 2001, Golovin took the position of first deputy chairman of the board of MDM Bank, was relieved of it in March 2002 and resigned from the board of directors of the bank. He was elected a member of the supervisory board of the St. Petersburg Promstroybank, a member of the board of directors of the financial group Banking House St. Petersburg.

The St. Petersburg OBD "Golden Pelican" was liquidated in 2010.

Vitaly Mutko is co-founder and President of the Public Charitable Foundation for the Support and Development of Football in St. Petersburg.

Impact on business:

In 1992, the mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak, at the suggestion of Mutko, signed decree No. 389-r, allowing the chairman of the Mayor's Committee on Social Issues (Mutko himself) to transfer privatization checks unclaimed by Russian citizens to check investment funds. It was declared that these checks would be used to purchase shares of profitable enterprises, the dividends from which would go to help the poor. As a result, vouchers began to be transferred en masse to check investment funds that did not fulfill their obligations either to depositors or to the poor.

Anatoly Sobchak (left)

The main package of vouchers, worth almost 3.5 billion rubles, was received by the Veteran fund. This fund was controlled by one of the leaders of the Tambov criminal community, Vyacheslav Shevchenko (killed in Cyprus in 2003). The father-in-law of his brother, Sergei Shevchenko (convicted of extortion), Alexander Sokalsky became the formal leader of “Veteran”. Subsequently, the vouchers were invested in OJSC Nord and other companies owned by the Shevchenko family, and Veteran went bankrupt.

In 1994, Vitaly Mutko coordinated the preparation and holding of the III Goodwill Games, financed by 52 Russian and international companies, from the administration of St. Petersburg. According to documents from a commission of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, part of the money was stolen, and the Kirov Stadium was repaired so poorly that the facility had to be renovated later. As a result, the stadium was demolished. After Vitaly Mutko left the administration of St. Petersburg and became president of ZAO Football Club Zenit, he tried to rent the Kirov Stadium. The project could not be implemented due to opposition from the new city administration headed by Vladimir Yakovlev.

In 2007, the Russian Football Premier League, headed by Vitaly Mutko, signed an agreement with the NTV-Plus television company, owned by OJSC Gazprom, to sell the company exclusive rights to broadcast matches of the Russian championship. If this contract were implemented, the games would only be seen by paid NTV-Plus subscribers. After the intervention of Vladimir Putin, the agreement was changed, and free TV channels received the right to broadcast the matches.

In 2008, the Russian team competing at the XXIX Summer Olympic Games in Beijing received the uniform of the Bosco di Ciliegi company, which had previously caused numerous complaints from athletes. However, a contract worth more than $13 million, excluding bonuses in the amount of 71 million 250 thousand rubles, was concluded with the main shareholder of CJSC MMD Group of Companies East and West (owns the Bosco di Ciliegi brand) Mikhail Kusnirovich.

In April-June 2010, on behalf of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the Accounts Chamber conducted an audit of the expenditure of budget funds allocated for holding the XXI Olympic Winter Games and the X Paralympic Winter Games in 2010 in Vancouver, Canada. One of the reasons for the revision was the poor sports results shown by Russian participants in the games. In total, about 6.2 billion rubles were spent from all sources on the preparation and participation of Russian national teams in the Olympics. (more than $221 million), including: 5.8 billion rubles. – for Olympic sports and 378 million rubles. - according to the Paralympic. Thus, the cost of one Olympic medal received by Russia was (conditionally) no less than 388 million rubles, the price of a Paralympic medal (conditionally) - no more than 10 million rubles.

An audit by the Accounts Chamber revealed many violations committed primarily by the Russian Ministry of Sports and Tourism, headed by Mutko, as well as by his predecessor, head of the Federal Agency for Physical Culture and Sports (Rossport) Vyacheslav Fetisov. The auditors found that direct financing of work and services related to the training of athletes during the entire Olympic cycle 2006-10. were engaged in commercial organizations with which the Federal State Institution “Sports Training Center for Russian National Teams” (TSSP) entered into government contracts in the amount of 2-3.5 billion rubles. They are for a fee of about 24 million rubles. per year they actually performed agency functions, concluding about 4,000 contracts with co-executors at their discretion.

The estimates were approved by the Federal State Institution “TsSP”, and the work performed by the contractors was presented to him for payment. In 2006-07 FGU “TsSP” has drawn up contracts with LLC “GFUP “AFSM”; in 2008 - with Olympus CJSC, in 2009 - with Europroekt LLC, and in 2010 - with Agora IT LLC. Each of these firms, called “peer companies” in the Accounts Chamber report, is worth special consideration.

The name of SFUP AFSM LLC does not just resemble the name of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Agency for Physical Culture and Sports Events (FSUE AFSM). In 2002, when the hockey player Fetisov became the head of Rossport, he invited his friend, vice-president of the CSKA hockey club, hockey player Sergei Makarov, to head the FSUE AFSM, which organized various competitions and sports camps. In 2004, the enterprise was liquidated, and the functions were transferred to the Federal State Institution “Management of Sports Events”. It was also headed by Makarov.

In the same year, Makarov became the general director of GFUP AFSM LLC. This commercial structure also began organizing competitions. As an official, Makarov allocated premises (188.8 sq. m) to his company on the territory of the Sports Events Administration (however, as the Accounts Chamber indicates, no lease agreement was concluded). Since 2005, Makarov has been the sole owner of GFUP AFSM LLC. In 2005, GFUP AFSM LLC, together with Expo-EM LLC and also with VDO Sportivnaya Rossiya LLC, became the founder of the autonomous non-profit organization International Exhibition Sport. The president of Expo-EM LLC at one time was the wife of the Minister of Emergency Situations Sergei Shoigu, Irina Shoigu.

LLC "GFUP AFSM" was repeatedly paid state funds - mainly through the Federal State Institution "Center for Sports Training of Russian National Teams". So, only for the period 2007-08. this organization received more than 2 billion 628 million budget rubles - about $87.6 million.

The shareholders of Olympus CJSC indicated that the main activity of the company during registration was “marketing research and identification of public opinion.” In 2008, for services for holding physical culture and sports events, CJSC "Olymp" received from the Federal State Institution "TsSP" 3 billion 515 million 800 thousand rubles - more than $118 million. The founders of "Olymp" were Dmitry Sergeevich Artyukhovsky (he was also listed as the general director) and Elena Viktorovna Shved. Artyukhovsky and Shved are also co-owners of Europroject LLC, which received a state contract for holding sporting events next year, 2009, for 3 billion 500 million rubles (about $116.6 million). The main activity of Europroject LLC is “construction of buildings and structures.” Later, Artyukhovsky left the founders, and Yulia Aleksandrovna Anufrieva was added to them.

Dmitry Artyukhovsky was also a participant and director of Converse-Sport LLC, then the property was re-registered to the Cyprus company KSPT Holding Limited. Converse-Sport LLC, in turn, was a co-owner of Orglot LLC (47%), which operates the Gosloto lottery.

The companies "Olympus" and "Europroject" are also united by the figure of Yuri Pushkarev, who was first the general director of Makarov's company LLC "SFUP "Agency of Physical Culture and Sports Events" (AFSM), then deputy general director of CJSC "Olympus" and, finally, provided accounting services to LLC " Europroject". Pushkarev is also the sole founder and general director of a company with an unusual name - LLC Physical Culture and Sports Organization Center for Financial Technologies.

The Agora IT company, which won the tender of the Federal State Institution TsSP in 2010 to conduct about 5,000 training camps, sports and physical education events with a contract for 3.23 billion rubles. ($115 million) was previously engaged in security and fire alarms. All government contracts that this company received in the period from 2007 to 2010 related specifically to the installation of alarm systems. Its largest contract, according to monitoring government contracts, was concluded in the amount of 6 million rubles. and concerned the installation of a fire alarm for the Prosecutor General's Office.

The report of the Accounts Chamber states that such a scheme, in which commercial organizations directly financed the training of athletes, led to the fact that significant federal budget funds were placed at the disposal of agents in excess of what was necessary. This money “rolled” for a long time in bank accounts that were specially opened in commercial banks by agent organizations. Advance payments were transferred to them more than what is limited by law. In addition, after the expiration of government contracts, funds continued to remain in the accounts of agent organizations for several more months, and only then were returned to the federal budget.

According to the documents of the auditors of the Accounts Chamber, Olympus CJSC, which performed the government contract in 2008, returned unused funds in the amount of 191 million 289 thousand 230 rubles to the federal budget. only in February 2009, Europroekt LLC, which performed the government contract in 2009, at the time of the audit by the Accounts Chamber (April-June 2010), unused money amounted to about 200 million rubles. did not return.

Having disposed of such significant financial resources for a certain time, agent organizations used them for their own purposes. In particular, CJSC "Olympus", having received funds from the federal budget from the Federal State Institution "TsSP" as part of the execution of the state contract, on March 3, 2008, transferred 199 million 200 thousand rubles to LLC "State Federal Unitary Enterprise "AFSM" for conducting training camps abroad. However, after a short time, GFUP AFSM LLC returned the money to Olympus as “excessively transferred”: March 12 - 50 million rubles, March 25 - 30 million rubles, June 3 - 30 million rubles. Total 110 million rubles. out of 199 million 200 thousand rubles, which the organization used at its own discretion.

Approximately the same scheme associated with the manipulation of money in bank accounts was used the following year by the agent organization Agora IT LLC.

All the companies with which the Federal State Institution “TsSP” entered into billion-dollar contracts were quickly liquidated soon after the contracts expired. As noted in the report of the Accounts Chamber, the closure of companies occurred with the submission of false information to the registration authorities. During liquidation, all these companies remained debtors to the Federal State Institution "TsSP".

Based on the acts of the Accounts Chamber, in September 2010, the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation (SKP) opened two criminal cases under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud). The investigation believed that the state suffered damage in excess of 230 million rubles as a result of fraudulent actions. Apparently, they were talking about criminal cases against the managers of Olymp CJSC and Europroekt LLC. They owed the budget an amount of just about 230 million rubles. No information about the results of the investigation of these criminal cases has been found in open sources.

The Accounts Chamber recorded another standard technique on the part of the counterparties of the Federal State Institution “TsSP”. Thus, in 2009, First Trading Company LLC received a government contract worth 80.9 million rubles for the supply of sports equipment and inventory. According to the delivery notes, the equipment was delivered. However, it turned out that the goods purchased under a government contract, within 1 day (December 22, 2009), passed through the invoices of a number of organizations, including First Trading Company LLC, New Sports Technologies LLC and ElitStar LLC, Moreover, the last society is not the final link in this chain. As a result of this scheme, First Trading Company LLC and New Sports Technologies LLC, having just completed the documents, received 2 million 991 thousand 600 rubles from the federal budget in almost 1 day. Such profitable paperwork did not prevent, however, First Trading Company LLC from continuing to use public money. In 2010, this company received contracts totaling 118.5 million rubles, with 117.5 million rubles. of which - again from the Federal State Institution "TsSP".

As part of the audit of the Accounts Chamber, it turned out that a number of companies, with which the Federal State Institution “TsSP” entered into contracts on a non-competitive basis, sold goods to the customer using budget money at a significant markup. For example, first LLC “CSS” purchased a simulator for 6 million 115 thousand 940 rubles, and then sold it to FGU “TSSP” for 10 million 126 thousand 440 rubles. Thus, the difference paid from the federal budget amounted to 4 million 10 thousand 500 rubles. – or 66% of the purchase cost. In total, for the period from 2007 to 2010, the Federal State Institution “TsSP” concluded 13 government contracts with LLC “Center for Sports Facilities” for a total amount of more than 578 million rubles – about $20 million.

The founders of this commercially successful organization are Kadiya Shamilevna Akhmerova and Viktor Anatolyevich Isakov. Akhmerova, in addition, is the director of the State Institution “Center for Innovative Sports Technologies of the Department of Physical Culture and Sports of Moscow.” She is the widow of Sultan Akhmerov, from 1999 to October 2003, Minister of Youth Policy, Sports and Tourism of the Saratov Region, who died in a car accident in 2005, when he had already been transferred to the post of vice-governor of the Tver Region. Viktor Isakov, according to Vedomosti, was an adviser to the governor of the Tver region Dmitry Zelenin on issues of physical education and sports.

In some cases, instructions related to ineffective and corrupt spending of federal budget funds were given directly by the Russian Ministry of Sports and Tourism. Thus, in 2009, the ministry considered that when purchasing it would be advisable to have not four suppliers of sports equipment (previously they were, in particular, Center for Sports Facilities LLC, Alma Mater Ltd. LLC), but one, and proposed as a candidate, FSUE Sport-Engineering, which is subordinate to itself, deals with capital construction issues and has no experience in supplying sports equipment. Thus, according to the decision of the Ministry of Sports and Tourism, a new “layer” has arisen between the main customer and the contractor. The procurement scheme for sporting goods began to look like this: first, the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "TsSP" entered into a state contract with the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Sport-Engineering", then the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Sport-Engineering" entered into an agreement for the supply of similar goods at a lower price with LLC "TsSS", and in the end CSS LLC purchased goods from Alma Mater Ltd. LLC. As a result of this scheme, payment for intermediary services of FSUE “Sport-Engineering” for only one of the contracts for the purchase of bobsleigh sleds amounted to 3 million 796 thousand rubles.

The Accounts Chamber in its report concludes that “the current practice in the system of the Russian Ministry of Sports and Tourism of exercising the rights granted by law to conclude government contracts on a non-competitive basis actually comes down to obtaining additional profit from the federal budget by individual organizations.”

Another scheme for the purchase of sportswear was identified by the Accounts Chamber around companies associated with Rostislav Borisovich Plaksin, formerly the first deputy director of the Federal State Institution “Department for the Organization and Conduct of Sports Events.” Plaksin is also one of the founders of Forward LLC, the official outfitter of the Russian national teams. The former founders of Forward, Alexey Borisovich Martinson and Artur Arkadyevich Arzumanov, are former deputy directors of the Federal State Institution “Sports Training Center for Russian National Teams”. Martinson also, until 2009, was the chairman of the board of directors of Orglot LLC, the organizer of the Gosloto lottery.

LLC Center for Equipment of National Teams of Russia became a subsidiary of Forward, only for the period 2008-2009. received government contracts totaling about 909 million rubles. - more than $31 million. Another owner of the Equipment Center is Sportinviza LLC, the main participant of which is Alim Mustafovich Alimov. He is also the owner of Sportobespechenie LLC. As the Accounts Chamber is confident, Sportobespechenie LLC makes money as an intermediary through markups on sports equipment when selling it under government contracts. In 2007, a contract was implemented in this way for a total amount of more than 432 million rubles.

The Accounts Chamber points out fraud in ensuring the access of Russian fans to events in Canada. Olympic Panorama CJSC received the status of the official agent for the distribution of tickets to sports competitions in Vancouver on the territory of the Russian Federation. This organization bought Russian quota tickets from the national organizing committee at a nominal price. Then, with a minimal markup, she sold about 40% of the seats to the Cypriot company Hambsello Commercial Limited, which, in turn, began to resell these tickets at an inflated price. The remaining 60% of the tickets of the Russian quota were offered to the citizens of the Russian Federation to be purchased by the citizens of the Russian Federation with a markup that was 11 or more times higher than the maximum level established by the international agreement - but the markup should not be more than 20% of the face value.

“Olympic Panorama” is the official ticket agent of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), and the committee has been working with it for about 20 years and, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, is one of the founders of the company. It is interesting that the main activity of the Olympic Panorama is indicated as “production of cellulose, wood pulp, paper and cardboard.” Other founders of the organization are people close to sports journalism: Alexander Borisovich Ratner - editor-in-chief of the Olympic Panorama magazine; Vladimir Grigorievich Kuleshov – head of the visa and accreditation department of the ROC, member of the official Russian delegation at the Olympic Games in Vancouver; Yuri Evgrafovich Bykovsky - photojournalist for the Olympic Panorama magazine (died in 2004); Tatyana Abramovna Kuzmicheva is the deputy editor-in-chief of the same magazine, a member of the official Russian delegation at the Olympic Games in Vancouver.

In August 2010, the Federal Antimonopoly Service found the company ZAO Olympic Panorama to have violated clause 6 of Part 1 of Art. 10 of the law on protection of competition (unreasonable tariffs by monopolists). The company was fined by the FAS - however, only for setting different prices for the same tickets.

The report of the Accounts Chamber also indicates that the expenses for Vitaly Mutko's visit to the 2010 Olympics amounted to a huge amount. Minister Mutko spent 20 nights in a courtyard suite at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver at a cost of C$1,499.0 per night. His total expenses in Vancouver amounted to 39.6 thousand Canadian dollars, of which 34.5 thousand went to pay for accommodation and 4.8 thousand to pay for 97 breakfast vouchers. The Accounts Chamber notes that the norms for reimbursement of expenses for renting accommodation during business trips in Canada do not exceed $130 (the Canadian dollar was calculated equal to the US dollar).

In addition to Mutko’s wife, the official Russian Olympic delegation to participate in the XXI Olympic Winter Games included the wife of Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko Yana Rudkovskaya, the daughter of the head of the Figure Skating Federation Valentin Piseev Kristina Piseeva and other outsiders.

In July 2010, the Accounts Chamber presented the results of an audit of the effectiveness of the use of federal property and budget funds in the field of physical culture and sports in 2007-2009. and for the first half of 2010. Particular attention was paid to the issue of income from the All-Russian State Lottery (Gosloto).

The contract for holding the Gosloto lottery was concluded between Orglot LLC and Rossport on November 22, 2006. Now the organizer of the lottery is the successor to Rossport - the Ministry of Sports and Tourism, headed by Mutko. Gosloto revenues amount to 26.9 billion rubles. were provided for financing the Federal Target Program (FTP) “Development of Physical Culture and Sports in the Russian Federation for 2006-2015”. However, in fact, the federal budget from the lottery in 2006-2009. 2 billion rubles were transferred, of which 184 million rubles. (9%) from the proceeds from the lottery, and the remaining part from the funds of Gazprombank, which actually covered the resulting shortfall in financing the Federal Target Program.

Initially, 99% of Orglot belonged to Gazprombank, but in March 2007 the bank reduced its share to 50.1% (49.1% directly and 1% through its subsidiary Finproekt LLC), and in the summer of 2008 it finally left the company, having sold control to the structures of the president of the Hungarian corporation TriGranit Sandor Demyan. Another 49.9% of Orglot is owned by entrepreneur Alexander Varshavsky - according to information from capital car dealers, he is a co-owner of the New York Motors-Moscow and Avilon companies, which own the largest car dealerships in Moscow.

By 2010, it became clear that Orglot LLC was in a state close to bankruptcy. At the end of 2009, the lottery's debt to the state was equal to 1 billion 973 million rubles, to credit institutions - 3 billion 230 million rubles.

Family:

Wife, Tatyana Ivanovna Mutko, housewife. She worked in the personnel department of the Baltic Shipping Company (now OJSC Baltic Shipping Company) and played a significant role in introducing her husband to the director of the shipping company, Viktor Kharchenko. In turn, Kharchenko contributed to Mutko’s rapprochement with Lensovet Chairman Anatoly Sobchak. After a joint voyage on the Anna Karenina ship owned by the shipping company, Sobchak appointed Mutko as head of the administration of the Kirov region.

Tatyana Ivanovna Mutko

In 2010, Vitaly Mutko earned 6.81 million rubles, Tatyana Mutko’s income amounted to 0.6 million rubles. The minister owns 0.13 hectares of land and a Mercedes E 530 car. Mutko rents a dacha with an area of ​​177.3 sq.m. for 49 years, together with his wife and daughters he owns two apartments - 252.7 and 150.8 sq.m.

During the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, Tatyana Mutko went there with her husband, although she was not included in the official delegation. After the Accounts Chamber began checking this fact, Tatyana Mutko compensated for the cost of a ticket to Vancouver in the amount of 52 thousand rubles.

The wife of the Minister of Sports was a co-owner of the St. Petersburg-based Levada CJSC, established in 2002 (main activity - wholesale trade). The company is now liquidated. One of the shareholders of this company was also Sergei Vladimirovich Gutnikov, president of the Federation of Physical Culture and Sports for Disabled People of St. Petersburg and director of the Special Olympic Committee of St. Petersburg. The President of this Committee is Vitaly Mutko. Another shareholder of Levada CJSC was German citizen Ernst Hansjörg Laichinger.

In 2007-09 Tatyana Mutko was the general director of Vitalema CJSC. The main activities of the enterprise are demolition and dismantling of buildings, as well as earthworks. The company became the owner of shares in CJSC Football Club Zenit (12% in 2001), as well as other legal entities associated with this football team (CJSC Trade and Industrial Company Zenit, CJSC Trading House Zenit) . Now Vitalema is the main owner of only the Zenit Equestrian Club LLC.

Daughter, Elena Vitalievna Mutko, merchant. According to SPARK-Interfax, she worked as the general director of Leon Dental Clinic LLC in St. Petersburg, where she was also the founder. Other founders were Mikhail Alfredovich Titov, Sergei Gennadievich Belyaev, Elena Vladimirovna Pospehova.

In 2010, she established Vikon LLC in the same city, providing dental and cosmetic services.

Daughter, Maria Vitalievna Mutko. Studied at the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University. Her father graduated from the same faculty in 1999.

Closest partners:

In St. Petersburg, along with Anatoly Sobchak and Vladimir Putin, Vitaly Mutko developed a good relationship with Valentina Matvienko, for whom he headed the headquarters in the gubernatorial elections of St. Petersburg in 2000 and who contributed to his appointment to the Federation Council.

Vitaly Mutko maintains good relations with Taimuraz Bolloev, who, with his support in 2009, became first vice-president and then president of the Olimpstroy state corporation, which manages the construction and operation of facilities built for the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, scheduled for 2014 After the Investigative Committee opened 6 criminal cases regarding fictitious employment for various management positions in Olimpstroy, with the payment of salaries to those employed totaling more than 23 million rubles, Bolloev resigned from the post of president in 2011. Olympstroy".

Deputy Director of the Department of Youth Policy and International Cooperation of the Ministry of Sports, Dmitry Vityutnev, is accused of receiving a bribe of 6 million rubles. from the Renaissance Technology company for winning the latest auction for the supply of electrical equipment for the Vnukovo-2 airport. Advisor to Vitaly Mutko, vice-president of the Kontinental Hockey League Igor Medvedev is suspected of fraud in the amount of 8 million rubles.

The new position of Deputy Prime Minister of the Government, who will be responsible for sports, tourism and youth policy, will be taken by the Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko. On October 19, Dmitry Medvedev proposed his candidacy to Vladimir Putin, and the president approved this choice. Mutko has been leading Russian sports since 2008. His main successes are Russia’s acquisition of the right to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup and victory in the team competition at the Sochi Olympics (after the 2014 Games, Mutko was jokingly called Medal Leontyevich). The main failures were the failure of the team at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver and the doping scandals of recent years. In the photo: Mutko (right) and Medvedev, December 2010 (Photo: Reuters/Pixstream)

Scandals and the World Cup

Mutko was promoted despite numerous scandals in Russian sports, in which the minister himself appeared. At the Olympics in Vancouver in 2010, the Russian team received only 11th place in the team competition, having won 15 medals. The poor performance became a reason to check the effectiveness of the use of federal budget funds for preparations for the Games. The Accounts Chamber found that the implementation of the plan according to which the athletes were trained was “ineffective, imperfect, contains a corruption component and generally requires fundamental changes.” After the Olympics, Medvedev, then president of Russia, called on everyone responsible for the team's poor performance to resign. As a result, Leonid Tyagachev left the post of head of the Russian Olympic Committee, and Mutko, although he did not relieve himself of responsibility for the failure of the team, promised to “work on the mistakes and continue to work.”

In August 2015, it became known that members of the coaching staff of the Russian national football team, in particular head coach Fabio Capello, had not been paid their salaries for several months. Mutko himself told reporters about this. Capello, under whose leadership the Russian team reached the World Cup for the first time in 12 years, received €7 million a year under his contract. As a result, the football union announced in 2015 the termination of the contract with Capello by agreement of the parties.

Currently, the curator of sports in the government is Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, and First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov is responsible for sports infrastructure. It is still unknown whether these powers will be redistributed after Mutko’s appointment. In the photo: Mutko (left) and Shuvalov, September 2015 (Photo: Photo by Oleg Nikishin - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)

The biggest scandal involving Mutko occurred in November 2015 - the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) published an investigation into the activities of the All-Russian Athletics Federation, the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) and the Ministry of Sports. In it, WADA accused RUSADA of non-compliance with the organization’s code and indicated that manipulations with doping tests of Russian athletes were carried out on Mutko’s orders. Then the minister, in response to a request from the WADA commission, denied all accusations against him, including pressure from FSB representatives on doping officers.

After the publication of the document, Putin suspended everyone who was mentioned in the report as direct perpetrators. Peskov later clarified that Mutko would not be affected by this instruction, since he was not mentioned in the report as a executor.

After this scandal, Mutko appointed himself personally responsible for anti-doping policy, signing the corresponding order in January 2016. Previously, this issue was dealt with by First Deputy Minister of Sports Yuri Nagornykh. In July this year, the independent commission WADA published an investigation into allegations of doping fraud at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi. The report said that in Russia in 2011-2015, a system for concealing positive doping tests was used 643 times. Although the report, according to the lawyer who prepared it, Richard McLaren, was interim, it became the reason for the exclusion of some Russian athletes from the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the Russian Paralympic team from the 2016 Games.

One of Mutko’s main achievements as head of the Ministry of Sports is the victory of the Russian bid for the right to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The highest governing body of the organizing committee for preparations for the 2018 World Cup is the supervisory board, which is headed by Putin. The first deputy chairman of the council is Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov. Mutko is the chairman of the organizing committee and deputy of the supervisory board: he is responsible for organizing the competition.

The scandal helped

Mutko was promoted for the same reason that Putin, in response to the question of whether Russia plans to abandon counter-sanctions, said “screw them,” notes political scientist Konstantin Kalachev. This is largely a demonstrative appointment, the purpose of which is to show that pressure on the president is useless, the expert is sure. “Mutko is a good functionary; he has been involved in Russian sports for eight years. But everyone will remember him for his lack of knowledge of English and the doping scandal. I think that it was the doping scandal that played a positive role in Mutko’s career,” says Kalachev.

It was possible to sacrifice Mutko and fire him, partially acknowledging the problems with doping in Russian sports, and showing the world a solution to this problem, Kalachev explains, but the president made it clear that he was not abandoning his own people.

Analysts associate Mutko’s appointment to the post of Deputy Prime Minister with Vladimir Putin’s desire to show that he does not succumb to external pressure related to doping scandals in Russia. “The president has shown that he does not abandon his own,” says political scientist Konstantin Kalachev. In the photo: Mutko (right) and Putin during the 2014 Paralympics in Sochi (Photo: Reuters/Pixstream)

Political scientist Evgeny Minchenko agrees with him. “This appointment is a signal that Putin does not succumb to external pressure, including on such a sensitive issue for Russia as sports,” the expert noted.

In the 1990s, Mutko worked with Putin for Anatoly Sobchak at the St. Petersburg mayor's office, and in 2000 he became one of Putin's confidants as a presidential candidate. Deputy Mutko has been appointed as the new minister, which means that they are satisfied with the management of the department, Kalachev believes. At the World Cup, Mutko will be the main star, he emphasizes.

Vitaly Mutko’s work can hardly be called good or even satisfactory, Dmitry Navosha, general director of the Sports.ru portal, noted to RBC. There is a failure in the two main components of Russian sports - mass sports and professional sports, but that is not why Mutko is valued, states Navosha. “The KPI by which he is judged at the top is Olympic medals. Mutko headed the Ministry of Sports when Russia won the Olympics in Sochi and performed better than expected in Rio, if we forget about the doping scandal,” the expert recalled.

With the participation of Dmitry Nosonov

Vitaly Leontievich Mutko (b. 1958) is a Russian statesman and public figure. He can rightfully be called the main character of Russian sports. He works in the Government of the Russian Federation as Deputy Chairman for Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy. For a long time he served as President of the Russian Football Union. From 2008 to 2016 he was the Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation.

Childhood

Vitaly was born on December 8, 1958 in the village of Kurinskaya on the Pshish River, Apsheronsky district, Krasnodar Territory. At birth, the boy was given the name Victor, but upon receiving his passport, he decided to change it to Vitaly.

Mutko's parents were simple working people. Dad worked as a loader, mom worked as a machine operator at the timber industry enterprise.

The boy was very fond of sports since childhood. I played football for the village team and even competed in the district championship. Their principal rival was then a team from neighboring Khodyzhensk. After classes in the school gym, he practiced boxing with other boys.

And in his studies he was practically first in the class, among his classmates he was considered an authority and leader. If the teacher needed to go somewhere during a lesson, Mutko was left in charge. Almost always, calm was maintained in the class, but once there was still an incident from which the returning teacher almost fainted. In her absence, the boys, including Vitaly, decided to impress the girls and began jumping out the window from the second floor on a dare. It's a miracle that no one's legs were broken.

Classmates remember Mutko as a good and fair comrade. He always let me write it off. But sometimes, while you were begging him to copy, you would listen a hundred times to how important it is to study well yourself. He generally grew up a good boy, for example, he didn’t smoke and bullied other boys for it.

He was a success among the girls. When Vitaly smiled, dimples appeared on his cheeks, and the fairer sex simply melted from it. In general, Mutko had an ordinary happy Soviet childhood with games of Zarnitsa, school evenings and discos. He was especially successful in dancing. At school I was one of the first dancers, even with my friend and girl partners we went to neighboring Khodyzhensk for a competition.

At school, everyone was sure that Mutko would definitely become a sea captain. He loved the sea very much. Once in Tuapse, during a boat trip, the boy was so impressed by the endless expanse of water he saw for the first time that he fell in love with the sea once and for all. He said that he was struck as if by thunder, so much did he like the seagulls screaming over the waves, the sun setting over the horizon and the salty taste of sea water on his lips. From that day on, all he did was imagine how in the future, wearing a white navigator and a cap with a cockade, he would give commands: “Right steering wheel! Full speed ahead!

Education

Having received a certificate of eight-year education, in which there were only “fours” and “fives,” Mutko went to enroll in the navigation department of the Rostov Naval School. But the attempt was not successful; unexpectedly for himself, he received a “D” for the dictation.

The guy didn’t want to return home; the captain’s bridge gave him no peace. Having sold a shirt at a clothing market and bought the cheapest train ticket, Vitaly went to the Leningrad region to the city of Petrokrepost (now Shlisselburg). In this tiny town there were very few places where one could get a vocational education. But for Vitaly, just what he needed was found - vocational school No. 226 of the river fleet (now a water transport technical school).

From the very first days of his studies, Mutko was a leader and an active Komsomol member. Soon he became a member of the Komsomol committee; the secretary of the Komsomol organization of the school considered him her right hand. The students (600 young boys) were accommodated in a dormitory, their life was always in full swing, many different events were held. Mutko was distinguished by special organizational skills, constantly coming up with some kind of competitions and tournaments between groups in football and volleyball. And for the New Year, I organized a celebration in the gym, in the center with the guys they installed a huge Christmas tree, they built a stage for musicians on the side, it was fun.

I studied well, my favorite subject was literature. After classes, the children were given two hours to self-study. In the dormitory, people sat at tables and studied, and teachers walked around the floors with whom one could consult.

Boys came here to study from all over the Soviet Union, so the school’s management tried to let them get to know Leningrad better, organizing excursions and trips to the theater three times a week.

Mutko now remembers very warmly his years of studying at the maritime school in Petrokrepost. It’s a pity that due to his busy schedule in 2003, he was unable to come here to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the educational institution. He sent his congratulations by fax, where he wrote: “I am proud that my career began at this school.”

At the end of their studies, the guys were taken almost from their final exams to their jobs as mechanics; buses from the seaports were already standing in the yard and waiting. But some, instead of distribution, continued to study further. Among them was Vitaly Mutko, he entered the Leningrad River School.

In the new educational institution, he also took an active part in the life of the Komsomol organization and was elected its secretary. He completed his internship on ships in the Leningrad seaport and in the management of the North-Western River Shipping Company as a sailor mechanic. I traveled along the Volga on a tourist boat, and I also visited abroad, from where I brought wool, fabric and lipsticks for sale.

Labor activity in St. Petersburg

But no matter how much Vitaly Mutko dreamed of the sea, he failed to connect his life with it. While still studying at the Leningrad River School, he followed the management line. In 1979, he was elected chairman of the trade union committee of the educational institution. The following year, 1980, Vitaly joined the ranks of the CPSU.

After graduating from college, he was invited to work at the Kirov district executive committee of Leningrad, where he worked for more than ten years. He started here as an instructor, then headed the department for social issues, reached the position of secretary, and then chairman of the district executive committee. During this time, he managed to graduate from the Institute of Water Transport Engineers in absentia.

In 1991, he headed the administration of the Kirov district of Leningrad, but did not work in this post for long. In 1992, he received an invitation from the mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak to the position of his deputy for social issues. The mayor's office was skeptical about Sobchak's decision and was not very accepting of the new deputy. The only one with whom Mutko immediately developed a good, trusting relationship was Vladimir Putin.

Vitaly worked in Sobchak’s team until 1996, overseeing during this period not only social issues, but also sports, culture, and healthcare. One of his major projects was preparing the northern capital for the Goodwill Games in 1994. At that time, these sports competitions could be compared in scale to the Olympics. The mayor's office of St. Petersburg believed that this was an important event in terms of improving the image of the city, and a lot of money was allocated for the preparation and holding of the games. To increase citizens' attention to the Goodwill Games, Sobchak organized a swim at the army sports club among members of the city government, in which Mutko took part.

When Sobchak lost in the next gubernatorial election, Mutko left the city government. In fact, he was left without a job. Since 1992, as an official of the city hall, he has been the nominal president of the Zenit football club. Finding himself not needed by the new St. Petersburg government, Vitaly focused entirely on football, Zenit and sports.

Sport

From 1997 to 2003 he served as president of FC Zenit. He managed to bring the club to a decent level, which in the early 1990s was completely languishing, and in 1993 was on the verge of dissolution. Under the leadership of Mutko, Zenit entered and firmly established itself in the elite of Russian football. The team has become the hallmark of the city along with the Hermitage and the Mariinsky Theater.

• In the summer of 2001, Mutko initiated the creation of the Russian Football Premier League, of which he was soon elected president.
• In 2005, he headed the Russian Football Union (RFU).
• Since 2006 - member of the FIFA Development Committee.
• In the spring of 2008, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree appointing Mutko to the post of Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy.
• In the spring of 2009 he joined the FIFA executive committee. Six months later, in the fall, he was appointed by the Government of the Russian Federation as curator of the World Cup, which will be held in Russia in 2018.
• In the fall of 2016, he was appointed to the Government of the Russian Federation as Deputy Chairman for Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy.

Mutko paid special attention to the Russian national football team, and more than once became the initiator of attracting the best and most expensive coaches in the world to the team.

During his activities in the field of sports, the public has repeatedly criticized Mutko for his lack of professionalism and unwillingness to defend the rights of Russian athletes who were unfairly condemned in competitions and deprived of awards. People believe that Vitaly Leontievich is irresponsible about sports.

On this score, the people's opinion does not always coincide with the government's. Noting Mutko’s merits in sports work, he was repeatedly presented with awards:

• Order of Friendship.
• Order of Honor.
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree.
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree.

In 2002, Mutko was awarded the title of Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the Russian Federation.

Doping scandal

In 2016, a report by the WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) commission stated that at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014, Russian athletes took doping and changed samples. The head of this commission, Richard McLaren, confidently announced to the whole world that all this was done at the state level and that the Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko was aware of this situation.

In connection with these statements, in early December 2017, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) banned Mutko from attending the Olympic Games for life. In the same month, Vitaly Leontyevich resigned from the post of president of the Russian Football Union and resigned from the organizing committee for the FIFA World Cup in the summer of 2018. According to the official, he resigned from his position because he needed time to appeal the IOC’s decision regarding him in the courts of arbitration for sports.

Personal life

Vitaly met his wife Tanya at the Baltic Shipping Company, where she worked in the personnel department. Tatyana is older than her husband; already at the time they met, she was quite an experienced and influential woman. It was thanks to his wife that Vitaly managed to advance and build a career. In 1990, she introduced her husband to the director of the Leningrad Shipping Company, who, in turn, during a cruise on the Anna Karenina motor ship, introduced the young, capable man to the Chairman of the Leningrad City Council, Anatoly Sobchak.

The couple have two daughters. The eldest Elena (1977) is successfully engaged in business and has her own dental clinic. The younger Maria (1985) connected her life with economics and law, and graduated from St. Petersburg State University.

The main values ​​are football and Kuban

Mutko never forgot his homeland. With his assistance, in 2007, an excellent sports ground was opened at the school where the future minister studied. The countrymen were really looking forward to Vitaly Leontyevich at its opening; the head of the district came to solemnly confer upon Mutko the title of honorary resident. But the minister was unable to attend the opening of the site and sent his representative. But fellow countrymen are not offended by Vitaly Leontyevich. During the period that he led the Russian Football Union, their region was replenished with dozens of football grounds. Kuban boys now have the opportunity to kick the ball on them.

In Kuban, Mutko’s signature words are quoted by all football fans: “The Krasnodar region should become a second Brazil.” When the local club "Kuban" is relegated from the Premier League to the first, Vitaly Leontyevich is very upset about this. Believes that his homeland is worthy of big football; If not today, then tomorrow the strongest team must appear in Kuban.

Tourism and youth policy.

Previously, Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation, Head of the Ministry of Sports and Tourism, RFU, Member of the Federation Council from St. Petersburg, served as Vice-Mayor of the Northern Capital, President of the Russian Football Union

Biography

Vitaly Mutko was born on December 8, 1958 in the village of Kurinsky, Krasnodar Territory. Mutko's parents came from a simple working environment: his father was a loader, his mother was a machine operator.

The future Minister of Sports Mutko dreamed of the sea since childhood and wanted to become a ship captain. Therefore, he received his initial vocational education at State Technical University No. 226 of the River Fleet in the city of Petrokrepost, Leningrad Region, specializing in motor mechanic, then graduated from the Leningrad River School.

In 1987, Vitaly Leontyevich graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Water Transport with a degree in mechanical engineer on marine vehicles and the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University in 1999. He defended his thesis on the topic: “Official crimes on the example of sporting events,” the chairman of the state commission was the prosecutor of St. Petersburg Ivan Sydoruk.

Career

After graduating in 1977, Vitaly Mutko worked on ships as a sailor mechanic for a year. Then he went from secretary of the Komsomol of the Leningrad River School to the head of the administration of the Kirov district of St. Petersburg.

In 1992, he worked in the government of St. Petersburg as deputy mayor of the city - chairman of the mayor's committee on social issues. In 1996, he left this position after A. Sobchak’s defeat in the elections.

Subsequently, Vitaly Leontievich became the president and one of the owners of FC Zenit. In 2001, he initiated the creation of the Russian Football Premier League, and later headed it, becoming president.

In 2003, he worked as a representative of St. Petersburg in the Federation Council, was a member of the Committee on Federation Affairs and Regional Policy, chairman of the Commission on Youth Affairs and Sports and a member of the Commission for Monitoring the Activities of the Federation Council.

In 2005, he was elected president of the Russian Football Union. In 2006, he was elected a member of the FIFA Technical and Development Committee.

On May 12, 2008, by decree of the President of Russia No. 745, he was appointed Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation.

In 2009, at the 33rd UEFA Congress in Copenhagen, he was elected to the FIFA Executive Committee.

On November 24, 2009, at an extraordinary conference of the Russian Football Union, the executive committee of the Union approved the resignation of Vitaly Mutko from the post of president of the organization. On the same day he was appointed chairman of the RFU Board of Trustees. On the part of the Government of the Russian Federation, he is the curator of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

In 2016, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation for sports, tourism and youth policy.

On December 5, 2017, after a doping scandal, by decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Mutko was banned for life from participating in the Olympic Games. He is accused of organizing and controlling the substitution of doping samples during the Winter Games in Sochi.

Personal life. Family

Vitaly Mutko is married. His wife, Tatyana Ivanovna, is a housewife. Before that, she worked in the personnel of the Baltic Shipping Company.

His wife helped develop Mutko’s career. So at one time she introduced him to the director of her company, Viktor Kharchenko, through whom the future Minister of Sports Mutko became close to Anatoly Sobchak.

Vitaly Mutko has two daughters.

Mutko's speech in English

In 2010, Vitaly Mutko became very popular on the Internet thanks to his famous speech, which was delivered at a meeting of the FIFA executive committee dedicated to the election of the host country of the 2018 World Cup.

Mutko’s speech in English was delivered with a strong accent; it went down in history under the name “letz mi spik from may hart in English.” After the speech, Vitaly Mutko said that he studied the speech for two weeks, rehearsing it in front of his family. According to Mutko, his wife and daughters laughed terribly.

Mutko's performance at FIFA gave rise to a wave of folk art on the World Wide Web, including musical mixes and free translation.

Birthday December 08, 1958

Russian public and political figure, president of the Russian Football Union

Education

He received his initial vocational education at a maritime vocational school in the city of Petrokrepost, Leningrad Region, specializing in motor mechanic.

Received secondary vocational education at the Leningrad River School technical school.

In absentia, while in the position of Chairman of the Kirov District Council, without interruption from work he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Water Transport, located in the Kirov District, with a degree in “mechanical engineer on ship engines” (1987).

In absentia, while being the president of the Zenit football club, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University (1999).

On June 16, 2006, as president of the Russian Football Union, he defended his dissertation at the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance on the topic “The relationship between market and government regulators in the development of physical culture and sports.” Based on the results of his defense, he was awarded the academic degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences.

Biography

• In his youth, he worked his way up from the chairman of the trade union committee of the Leningrad River School to the head of the administration of the Kirovsky district of St. Petersburg.
• After receiving initial professional education at a maritime vocational school in 1977-1978, he worked as a sailor mechanic on ships of the Leningrad seaport and the North-Western River Shipping Company. Soon he was promoted to work in the executive committee of the Kirov District Council of People's Deputies of Leningrad; worked as an instructor, head of the social affairs department, and secretary of the district executive committee.
• Since 1980 he has been a member of the CPSU.
• In 1983-1991 - Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Kirov District Council of People's Deputies of Leningrad
• In 1987, while holding the position of Chairman of the Kirov District Council, without interrupting his work, he graduated in absentia from the Institute of Water Transport Engineers located in the territory of the region under his jurisdiction.
• In 1990, he was elected as a deputy of the Kirov District Council.
• In 1990-1991 - Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Kirov District Council.
• Since 1991 - head of the administration of the Kirovsky district of the city.
• In 1992, he was invited to the government of St. Petersburg to the position of deputy mayor of the city - chairman of the mayor's committee on social issues. Had a good relationship with A. Sobchak; After his defeat in the gubernatorial elections in the summer of 1996, he left the city administration.
• From 1997 to 2003 - President of FC Zenit.
• In 1999, while holding the position of president of FC Zenit, he graduated from St. Petersburg State University in absentia without interruption from work.
• In August 2001, on his initiative, the Russian Football Premier League was created, of which he soon became president.
• Since October 29, 2003, he represented the government of St. Petersburg in the Federation Council. Member of the Committee on Federation Affairs and Regional Policy, Chairman of the Commission on Youth Affairs and Sports and member of the Commission for Monitoring the Activities of the Federation Council.

• On April 2, 2005, at an extraordinary conference of the Russian Football Union, he was elected its president (96 out of 99 members of the RFU executive committee voted for his candidacy). According to Mutko, the priorities of his program as president of the RFU are the adoption of a state program for the development of football and the creation of the necessary conditions for “a sharp breakthrough in the mass passion for football.” Mutko pays special attention to the national football team; he was one of the initiators of inviting foreign coach Hiddink to the Russian national football team.
• In 2006, he was elected a member of the FIFA Technical and Development Committee (a single body, the Technical and Development Committee).
• By Decree of the President of Russia of May 12, 2008 No. 745, he was appointed Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation (the Ministry was formed as a result of the restructuring of executive authorities in May 2008).
• On May 12, 2008, he was relieved of his duties as a member of the Federation Council and chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Youth Affairs and Sports.
• In March 2009, at the 33rd UEFA Congress in Copenhagen, he was elected to the FIFA Executive Committee.
• On November 24, 2009, at an extraordinary conference of the Russian Football Union, the executive committee of the Union approved the resignation of Vitaly Mutko from the post of president of the organization.
• Since November 24, 2009 - Chairman of the RFU Board of Trustees.