MOSCOW, April 25 President of the Russian Premier League (RPL) Ashot Khachaturyants announced the need to reform the refereeing committee of the Russian Football Union (RFU) and the entire refereeing corps. Previously, the refereeing committee suspended a number of referees until the end of the season from servicing RPL matches for gross mistakes they made. those functions that should be performed in full. In general, a reform of the refereeing committee and the entire refereeing corps is necessary. At the end of the championship, I think I will submit such a program to Alexander Valerievich Dyukov for consideration, «Khachaturyants said on the air of the program» After football with Georgy Cherdantsev» on «Match TV». Khachaturyants has been the head of the refereeing committee of the RFU since November 2019. In the fall of 2021, he took over as president of the RPL. «I would not want to shift the responsibility to anyone and I think that I personally, as the head of the referee committee, failed to carry out the reforms that were necessary. At the same time, I do not regret a single decision to remove judges,» Khachaturyants added.
