Frame grab made from the APTN footage Alexander Shprygin speaks to The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia on Friday, December 4, 2015. Alexander Shprygin heads the All-Russian Supporters’ Union. Anti-discrimination organisation FARE has accused Shprygin of displaying racist and Nazi symbols and called for him to be removed from a government commission overseeing Moscow’s preparations for the 2018 World Cup. Photo: AP MOSCOW: The number of racist displays by Russian football fans has doubled in the country which will host the World Cup in 2018, with most cases going unpunished, anti-discrimination campaigners say. Researchers from the Moscow-based SOVA Centre and …read more
Source: The Himalayan Times
