An interior view shows the Luzhniki Stadium, which will host 2018 FIFA World Cup matches, in Moscow, Russia May 6, 2017. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
KRASNODAR, Russia (Reuters) - Russia's preparations for hosting the football World Cup next year are on track, Russian President Vladimir Putin told the head of world football's governing body, FIFA, on Tuesday.
Russia, which has come under several rounds of Western sanctions over the annexation of Crimea and Moscow's role in Ukraine's conflict with pro-Russian separatists, will host the FIFA Confederations Cup next month and the World Cup in 2018.
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