The Russian Football Union says they cannot afford to pay the wages of national team manager Fabio Capello.
A member of the governing body's executive committee has admitted they "should have thought about how to fund" his deal when it was agreed in 2012.
The former England boss is thought to be on around £ 7 million a year and is under contract until the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
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His Russian side failed to advance from the group stages at the World Cup.