FIFA did not expel Russia from the World Cup qualifying on Sunday though it still remained an option. Instead Russia can play using the “RFU” of its football federation, the Russian Football Union. Furthermore, the Bureau of the FIFA Council ruled that the Russian flag and anthem were not to be associated with the team.
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Russia has launched an attack on cities and military installations across Ukraine. Thousands of Ukrainians and civilians are fleeing the capital, Kyiv, and other areas.
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About 100,000 Russian troops have surfaced on Ukraine’s border, prompting the United States and its NATO allies to warn of impending sanctions and using political maneuvers in an attempt to deter a possible Russian attack on Ukraine. Andreas Krieg, an associate professor in the defense studies department at King’s College London, said any Russian invasion
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov have held talks in Geneva over the Ukraine crisis. The United States has called on Russia to pull back thousands of troops it has massed near the border with Ukraine, warning any incursion would be met with a swift, severe and
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Microsoft’s officials and cybersecurity experts warned earlier this Sunday that Russia’s intelligence agency had launched another campaign to pierce thousands of computer networks, this is only months after President Biden imposed sanctions on Moscow in response to a series of spy operations it had conducted around the world.
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Russia has accused Britain and the United States of working together to incite conflict in the Black Sea. The British ambassador was summoned in Moscow over claims that a British destroyer ship had breached its territorial waters off the Crimean coast. The country’s Deputy Foreign Minister says that the actions of the British destroyer could
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