This case was finally resolved by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on 15 January 2014. It attracted a lot of media attention in Russia and it is reported that it is the reason why Mr. Sergey Pryadkin, currently Vice-President of the Football Union of Russia (FUR) and President of the Russian Football Premier League, did not win the latter presidential elections in FUR.

The origin of the dispute is from 18 April 2011, when the Russian newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" alleged in an article that Mr. Pryadkin, in his capacity as a member of FUR committees, Vice-President of the FUR, member of the FUR Executive Committee and FUR Bureau of the Executive Committee as well as President of the Russian Football Premier League, had a conflict of interest and was...

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