Russian senator claims evidence of ‘US plot’ to discredit 2018 World Cup
By Mark Baber
November 24 – Leading Russian senator Andrei Klimov, said on Thursday that he has credible evidence the United States aims to “discredit” the 2018 World Cup to be held in Russia.
Klimov who is head of the international affairs committee of the upper house of parliament and of the newly established protection of state sovereignty commission, said: “The commission has received credible evidence showing that American government officials are directly steering their European colleagues into using the subject of sport to the utmost to discredit Russia in 2018.”
With Russia and the United States involved in a diplomatic war over Ukraine and Syria and with US domestic politics dominated by accusations of Russian “meddling”,
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