Alexey Sorokin is keen to move on from allegations of wrongdoing around Russia's 2018 World Cup bid.
Russia 2018 chief executive Alexey Sorokin insists recent allegations around the country's World Cup bid is behind it.
Allegations of corruption have surrounded the bid, and that of Qatar 2022, and both have drawn even greater attention since the arrest of FIFA officials in May.
Russia and Qatar deny wrongdoing and Sorokin, the chief executive of the 2018 World Cup's local organising committee, said it was time to move on.
"The biggest issues are metaphysical, they are the stereotypes that we have to live with which exist in other societies about Russia," Sorokin said.