The International Football Federation (FIFA) noted that the removal of the Russian national team from the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang will not affect the preparations for the World Cup.

FM-2018 is scheduled in Russia from June 14 to July 15.

"FIFA took note of the decision of the IOC on the participation of Russian athletes at the Olympics in Pyeongchang. This decision does not affect preparations for the World Cup 2018, we continue to work to make this tournament the best, "the press service of FIFA.

Also in the organization commented on the suspension from participation in all subsequent Olympiads of the vice-premier of the Russian Federation, the head of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Vitaly Mutko.

"When it comes to potential disciplinary or ethical decisions regarding specific individuals, only the relevant FIFA bodies can assess them," the press service added..

As reported, on December 5, the IOC executive committee in Lausanne suspended the Russian national team from participating in the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, which will be held in February. "Clean" Russian athletes were allowed to participate under the Olympic flag.

The decision was made on the basis of the conclusions reached by the two commissions: Denis Oswald and Samuel Schmidt. The first was engaged in a re-examination of doping samples of participants of the Olympic Games in Sochi, the second investigated the involvement of Russian officials in doping frauds.

Recall, for the use of doping IOC has already selected from Russia 11 medals. Russia lost the first place in the Olympics in Sochi on the number of medals.

In 2016, a doping scandal broke out after the reports of McLaren, who led the WADA investigation.

They said that Russian athletes were involved in the manipulation of doping tests at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. In addition, Mutko was accused of doping fraud, and the replacement of doping tests with "clean" was involved senior officials of Russia.