Moscow official says West is trying to deny Russia World Cup russia
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Rostov-on-Don is one of a Russian cities hosting a Cup
Russian unfamiliar ministry mouthpiece Maria Zakharova has indicted the UK and US of seeking to stop her nation hosting this summer's World Cup.
Speaking in a extensive interview with a Russian TV channel, she pronounced their "main aim" was to "take a World Cup out of Russia".
The UK has been seeking to retaliate Russia after accusing it of ascent a haughtiness agent conflict in Britain.
The Royal Family will evade the World Cup as partial of a British response.
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has likened Russia's World Cup to Nazi Germany's Olympic Games in 1936. and one British Opposition MP has called for a Cup to be deferred or moved.
However, there is now no idea the England group will protest the prestigious championship, that opens in June.
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Media captionRussian diplomats leave Washington
Scores of diplomats have been diminished on both sides in a dispute over a poisoning of former Russian view Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury on 4 March.
In a latest move, about 170 Russian diplomats and their family members left Washington on Friday evening.
At a same time, a US dwindle at a American consulate in St Petersburg was taken down following a Russian government's instruction to tighten it down.
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What did Zakharova say?
Speaking to Russia's Channel 5 TV, Ms Zakharova said: "It's my sense that all they caring about is holding the World Cup out of Russia.
"They will use any means. Their minds are usually on that football and God dissuade it should hold a Russian football field."
Russia denies any impasse in a poisoning of a Skripals.
Mr Skripal stays critically ill though stable, while his daughter is now pronounced to be unwavering and talking.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has pronounced it will cruise a ask for Russian consular entrance to Yulia, a Russian citizen.
What is a background to a dispute?The poisoning quarrel has rumbled on for scarcely a month.
The UK is austere Russia is behind a poisoning of a Skripals.
UN secretary ubiquitous Antonio Guterres on Thursday released a warning over "a conditions that is similar, to a vast extent, to what we lived during a Cold War".
Russia says it is seeking a assembly with leaders of a Organisation for a Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to "establish a truth" about a poisoning.
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