Football Soccer – Euro 2016 – Marseille, France 11/6/16 Police disperse revellers at the old port of Marseille after the England v Russia – Group B match. Photo: REUTERS/FILE
MOSCOW: Ultra-nationalist and schooled in their country’s historical grievances, Russian soccer hooligans see themselves as fighting the Kremlin’s geopolitical battles in miniature when they clash with foreign fans at the Euro 2016 tournament.
“Our fans in Marseille are a copy of Russian foreign policy,” Professor Sergei Medvedev from Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, wrote on social media after Saturday’s clashes around the England-
Russia game in the French city of Marseille.
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Source: The Himalayan Times
