A meeting of the Control-Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Association at Football House on Wednesday looked into two widely discussed, contentious recent situations in the Russian Premier League.

The Committee fined Zenith St.Petersburg 500,000 rubles for having been caught red-handed in the game against Lokomotiv with more than the allowed number of foreign players on the pitch.

It is worth mentioning that Zenith had 7 foreign players on the pitch by the end of that game, after Russian international Pavel Pogrebnyak was substituted for Turkish forward Fatih Tekke: the rules allow no more than 6 foreign players.

Zenith could have been heavily fined and declared the loser of the game. They could also have been striped of the points earned in the game, with the 1:1 (not 0:3) result left standing in the records. Lokomotiv would have been awarded an additional 2 points.

The Committee also adjudicated on the issue of the insulting banner deployed by fans in the game between Spartak Moscow and Spartak Nalchik. Spartak agreed to pay the maximum 500-ruble fine envisaged by the rules in such a case.