MOSCOW, June 27, Andrey Simonenko. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Spartak Moscow Leonid Fedun said that he understands the reasons for Ashot Khachaturyants' departure from the post of president of the Russian Premier League (RPL), but he cannot voice them publicly. On Monday, Khachaturyants resigned from the post of president of the RPL. The head of the National Football League (FNL) Alexander Alaev was appointed interim as his acting head. «I am very sorry that he (Khachaturyants) left. He was effective in his post. He was able to increase RPL funding by an order of magnitude, (a contract with a sponsor for) 11 billion rubles will remain his good legacy. I understand the reasons for his departure, but this is not for the press,» Fedun said. In early June, the RPL signed a four-year contract with one of the betting companies for 11.04 billion rubles. after the departure of Sergei Pryadkin and was approved in office on November 22. He was the seventh leader in the history of the RPL after Vitaly Mutko (from 2001 to 2003), Valery Filatov (2003, acting), Evgeny Giner (2003-2004), Yuri Zavarzin (2004-2006), Mikhail Vorontsov (2006- 2007) and Pryadkin (2007-2021).
