MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's interior ministry has ordered police to withhold negative news from the media during the soccer World Cup and instead report successes such as crimes being solved, two police sources said on Thursday.
A copy of the order, seen by Reuters, instructs police not to release any information about the results of investigations, police raids or other operations before July 25.
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