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Could Russia Lose the 2018 World Cup?

The FIFA scandal demonstrates the determination of certain Western countries to exert pressure on the organization, with the end goal being the cancellation of Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022 World Cups, or at the very least to seriously complicate the matter....

08.06.2015

Sports Diplomacy. Can Sepp Blatter bring unity to a fractious FIFA?

After being told by Henry Kissinger that it was time to “modernize” FIFA president Sepp Blatter has turned football into a money machine that is expanding in Africa the Middle East and Asia, and maintaining a profitable scenario for marketing partners in a troubled global economy. Reflecting on how football has become ...

04.04.2015

Sports and Politcs: Brazil's football Santa Plays Christmas Scrooge

... find even the most famous clubs tightening their belts. Players are griping because teams delay paychecks. Managers balk at signing for less money. Third party syndicates continue to own shares of players like slices of churrasco, dribbling around FIFA rules. Government subsidized football hasn't improved quality Brazil's version of big government has traditionally played Santa for the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), the FIFA entity at the top of the nation's futebol ...

28.12.2014

Desafinado. Is FIFA’s sports diplomacy out of tune with Brazil?

Interview with Eric Ehrmann It’s time for the FIFA World Cup in Brazil and stadiums throughout the Samba Land are filled with large English posters promoting the slogans of FIFA’s sports diplomacy. We asked Eric Ehrmann, Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger , to share his views on Mundial ...

11.07.2014

Pre-Sports Diplomacy. Hockey broke the ice in the Cold War

Before the FIFA World Cup was given “sports diplomacy” status by pundits, academics and some among its own leadership, the ice hockey rivalry between the Soviet Union, the United States and Canada that developed during the 1960 Winter Olympic Games at ...

27.06.2014

Mundial 2014: Brazil is More than Soccer

World Cup Organization Brazilian-Style The FIFA World Cup finals underway in Brazil are capturing the attention of both soccer fans and big business worldwide. While on the one hand there are clear economic dividends, the host state also faces social and even political problems. Brazil’s ...

25.06.2014

Yes we can. Brazil confident about World Cup security

... along Brasilia’s divided highway of government were gone for the weekend. After former president Jose Inacio Lula da Silva (known as “Lula”) made headlines by saying that anybody who uses the Metro (in Rio and Sao Paulo) to travel to FIFA World Cup games is an “idiot” (babaça) it was the perfect time for president Dilma Rousseff’s media team to call a press conference about World Cup security. The setting for around 70 journalists and government media advisers ...

05.06.2014

FIFA, sports diplomacy and the Bout connection

As the Godfather of association football, FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been implicated in major corruption scandals in the past. But this time with the investigation of Qatar and Russia the prize in this high stakes game could be his job. Led by Michael Garcia, the former U.S. attorney general ...

31.03.2014

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  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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