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Russia and Croatia will play today in the quarterfinals of the 2018 World Cup
On Saturday, at 21 hours Moscow time, at the Fisht stadium in Sochi, a match will be held as part of the 1/4 finals of the World Cup between the Russian national teams and Croatia. The day before it became known that Vladimir Putin is not going to visit him-as they said in the Kremlin, because of his working schedule. The President of Croatia came to the match.
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0:00 0:00:59 Download the media fileThe Moscow authorities announced that after the end of the match, several streets in the center of the Russian capital would be blocked for traffic and will become pedestrian for festivities. It is also reported that metro stations located next to the city fan zones will change the operating mode.
The night before, more than a day before the match, in the group of the Mir National Payment System on the social network VKontakte, a congratulation appeared on the victory of Russia in the match over Croatia. The message starting with the phrase "We are in the semifinals! This is something incredible, but we believed that it would be so!", It was soon deleted . Subsequently, the appearance of "congratulations" was called the "forecast for the game."
On Friday, it became known that the French President Emmanuel Macron, who is going to visit the semifinal match of his team with the Belgian team on July 10 in St. Petersburg, will come to the French Championship.
A number of international organizations previously called on Western leaders to boycott the championship because of Russia's actions in Syria and violations of human rights in the country. At the official level, the championship will boycott the ministers of the British government due to the incident in Salisbury.