World Cup Victory for Team Russia: What are the Odds?
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber – June 11, 2014) As the World Cup kicks off on Thursday, Russian soccer circles have tempered their expectations for Team Russia, juggling...
View ArticleNEWSLINK: Domestic focus sinks Russia, rings alarms for 2018 World Cup
[“Domestic focus sinks Russia, rings alarms for 2018 World Cup” – Reuters – 6.27.14] Reuters covers Russia’s soccer (football) woes. Even as Russia is slated to host the World Cup in 2018, Russian...
View ArticleRussia Could Use Prison Labor For 2018 World Cup
(RFE/RL – Tom Balmforth – MOSCOW, May 25, 2015) A prominent member of parliament for the ruling United Russia party has drafted a bill to allow enterprises to employ thousands of convicts as a cheap...
View ArticleSwitzerland probes Russian 2018 World Cup bid over bribery charges
(Business New Europe – bne.eu – bne IntelliNews – May 27, 2015) Russia’s bid to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup is under criminal investigation on corruption suspicions, Switzerland’s attorney general...
View ArticleRussians against Kremlin spending money on Crimea or World Cup
(Business New Europe – bne.eu – Henry Kirby in London – June 4, 2015) [Charts here http://www.bne.eu/content/story/bnechart-russians-against-kremlin-spending-money-crimea-or-world-cup] An overwhelming...
View ArticleNEWSLINK Reuters: Economy weighs on Russia World Cup plans amid FIFA scandal
President Vladimir Putin is still likely to host the World Cup in 2018 despite an FBI investigation into Russia’s winning bid but his hopes of staging a tournament that impresses his critics are fading.
View ArticleMajority [of Russians] See FIFA Scandal as Attack on Russia
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Howard Amos – June 18, 2015) Most Russians think that corruption allegations against officials at FIFA, football’s governing body, leveled by U.S. investigators...
View ArticleNEWSLINK Reuters: After midnight in the library, Putin sets out his world view
It was two minutes before midnight when Russian President Vladimir Putin finally entered the meeting room in the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, more than three hours late, to be interviewed by a...
View ArticleMost Russians Not Interested in Football, Poll Shows
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Jennifer Monaghan – July 7, 2015) As the country gears up to host the next World Cup tournament, interest in football has hit an all-time low in Russia, with most...
View ArticleNEWSWATCH New York Times: Kazan, a Russian Cultural Hub, Finds It’s Good at...
The New York Times covers Russian efforts to turn Kazan into a center for sporting events. A cultural hub for 1,000 years, the city has spent the decade since its 2005 millennium celebration...
View ArticleVIDEO: Conversation: Russia’s Perfect Economic Storm
(Stratfor.com – August 11, 2015) Video Transcript: Ben Sheen: Hello and thank you for joining us. My name is Ben Sheen, I’m a managing editor here at Stratfor, and with me today is Stratfor’s senior...
View ArticleNEWSLINK AFP: Russia kicks off 1,000-day countdown to 2018 FIFA World Cup
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View ArticleTRANSCRIPT: [Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Men, Alexander Novak, Nikolai Nikiforov,...
(kremlin.ru – February 1, 2017) Vladimir Putin met with Government members to discuss possibilities for further developing treasury monitoring of budget spending, the situation with co-funded housing...
View ArticleNEWSWATCH: “U.S. Soccer Defeat Is a Loss for Russia. In place of a flood of...
“… a fresh setback for U.S.-Russia relations: The U.S. men’s soccer team fell to Trinidad and Tobago … and … failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time in three decades. For Russia, hosting...
View ArticleNEWSLINK: “Putin to deploy ‘canine KGB death squads’ to butcher thousands of...
“WARNING – DISTRESSING IMAGES: The mass slaughter of stray dogs will take place despite assurances to the contrary, say animal rights campaigners”
View ArticleNEWSLINK: “If we don’t boycott the World Cup, England fans will almost...
“… The Russian state is suspected of involvement in the murder of 14 people in Britain. … more than the Yorkshire Ripper …. Russian football hooligans are the most organised and ruthless in the world....
View ArticleRUSSIALINK: “At the FIFA World Cup This Summer, Russia Will Be Playing for a...
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – May 1, 2018) On a crisp, cool morning in early November, the Russian national football team trained on the outskirts of Moscow in preparation for friendly matches...
View ArticleRUSSIALINK: “Almost 90% of Tickets Sold for the World Cup in Russia”– The...
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – May 4, 2018) Almost 90 percent of the tickets to the 2018 FIFA World Cup matches have been sold, chairman of the tournament’s organizing committee Alexey Sorokin...
View ArticleNEWSLINK: “England fans at World Cup ‘at risk of blackmail from Russian mafia...
“… ‘It’s not just the Russian government we have to be fearful of when it comes to England fans. It is also the Russian mafia who we know exploit sex, and use the internet and dating, to offer women...
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