By Darya Korsunskaya and Dmitriy Rogovitskiy
Russian President Vladimir Putin defended Russia’s right to host the 2018 soccer World Cup on Thursday and accused the United States of meddling outside its jurisdiction in the arrest of top officials from world governing body FIFA.
Putin said the arrests in Switzerland on Wednesday were an “obvious attempt” to prevent FIFA head Sepp Blatter’s re-election this week but that the 79-year-old had Russia’s backing.
“If anything happened, it did not happen on U.S. territory and the United states has nothing to do with it,” he said. “This is yet another blatant attempt (by the United States) …read more
Source: Cyprus Mail
