MOSCOW // The Russian government has proposed a $175 million increase to its budget for the 2018 World Cup, reversing a trend of repeated cuts this year.
A document written by the Sports Ministry and published on a Russian government database Monday envisages an increase of 12.5 billion rubles (US$175 million), taking the budget to US$9 billion (Dh33.058bn).
That document and another published Monday proposed various changes to many training bases that will be built for the tournament, but it was not clear if those changes were responsible for the budget hike.
Russia has been keen to cut World Cup costs this year in line with a wide policy of reducing government spending.
Russia’s economy shrank 4.6 percent in the second quarter of the year.
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