MOSCOW, March 16 Football referee Vitaly Meshkov was not assigned to matches 22 th round of the Russian Premier League (RPL), according to the website of the Russian Football Union (RFU), on Monday in Kazan, Rubin lost to Rostov in the match of the 21st round of the Russian championship (1:2). After the game, the head coach of the Kazan club, Leonid Slutsky, criticized the work of the chief referee of the meeting Meshkov, saying that the referee «did everything he wanted» and «spit in the face of everyone who came to the stadium,» and also called the referee's actions «murder.» On Wednesday the head of the ethics committee of the RFU, Semyon Andreev, said that Slutsky's critical statements about Meshkov would be considered at a meeting of the committee on March 24.
