LONDON (Reuters) - Boycotting the 2018 World Cup in Russia in protest over the civil war in Ukraine would be an "empty gesture", former British sports minister Richard Caborn said.
Russia, who won the right to stage the soccer tournament in a 2010 vote by football’s world governing body FIFA, is allegedly backing pro-Russian rebels against Ukrainian forces in a war in eastern Ukraine since Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula five months ago.
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