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HARDtalk: Alexei Sorokin - CEO, Russian Organising Committee, World Cup 2018

08/06/2015

Alexei Sorokin - CEO, Russian Organising Committee, World Cup 2018

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Alexei Sorokin - CEO, Russian Organising Committee, World Cup 2018

The chief of Russia's World Cup organising committee talks to Stephen Sackur.

Stephen Sackur asks Alexei Sorokin, the chief of Russia's World Cup organising committee, what the odds are on the World Cup actually making it to Moscow.

Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium is the venue for the Fifa World Cup final in 2018 - at least it is if Russia retains its status as host nation to the world's biggest sporting event. The decision to award the next two World Cups to Russia then Qatar is now being investigated by the authorities in Switzerland and the US. Stephen Sackur asks the chief of Russia's World Cup organising committee, Alexei Sorokin, what are the odds on the World Cup actually making it to Moscow?

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