Some Russian regions lost the right to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup
The Moscow region, Samara, Yaroslavl and Saransk have been excluded from the list of candidates for hosting the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Izvestia writes. Thus, the primacy of the planet will be entrusted to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Volgograd, Yekaterinburg, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar and Sochi.