Aleksandr Djukov was allowed to vote in the UEFA executive board.
Aleksandr Djukov is the CEO of state-owned Gazprom. PDO
In the influential committee of the European football association UEFA, there is an important person for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russian Alexander Dyukov sits on the executive ladder of the Russian oil company Gazprom as CEO and serves as the head of the Russian Football Federation.
Djukov was still on Tuesday to vote for the host country of the women’s football European Championship at the UEFA meeting. In the same vote, the joint application of Finland and the other Nordic countries also competed for the organization of the Games, which, however, lost to Switzerland’s application.
According to the information, he is also responsible for establishing a private military company in Russia.
Gazprom
In February, it was widely reported that Gazprom was building its own private army.
According to various news sources, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a law according to which private military companies can be established in the country and would have separately sent an order to Gazprom to collect the necessary funds for building a private army.
Djukov is the CEO of the company, even though it is owned by the Russian state. Thus, Djukov is responsible for the company’s operations and handles the government’s orders.
In the taste of others Forbes and Time magazine reported at the time that Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense warned that Gazprom’s military company would be set up to control valuable energy reserves in Russia. However, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine also said that the company’s private army would be similar to Wagner.
Russia has been at war Yevgeny Prigozhin created by the Wagner private army, but Prigozhin has sometimes strongly criticized the actions of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Russia has been trying to find ways to amass new private armies, with which Gazprom has entered the picture. At the same time, it is about a power struggle within Russia, and Gazprom’s private army could possibly be deployed on the Ukrainian front as well.
The International Olympic Committee has recommended sports federations to take back individual Russian athletes. There has been heated discussion about including Russian athletes, but one area is completely exhausted.
– We forget that although Putin has started a bloody war in Ukraine, he has at the same time ensured that several Russian sports directors have kept their jobs in many international sports federations. Some of them have closer connections with the administration than some individual athletes, an expert on international sports policy at the Play The Game organization Stanis Elsborg said For Tipsbladet and continued:
– One of them is, for example, Aleksandr Djukov, who is not only the head of the Russian Football Federation, but also part of the influential UEFA executive committee.
The war started by Vladimir Putin continues in Ukraine. PDO
Collaborative partner
Gazprom was a partner of UEFA for a long time, but the umbrella organization of European football ended the cooperation quickly when Russia expanded its war of aggression in Ukraine.
Gazprom has also acted as a significant partner in the soccer Champions League and UEFA national team competitions.
Djukov is also on the sanctions list of Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand because of his close ties to Putin.