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Alexei Smertin lands role as head of racism investigations ahead of the 2018 World Cup... two years after declaring 'no racism exists in Russia' 

21/02/17 12:52

20/02/17 23:52

EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea are helping former Russia and CSKA Moscow manager Leonid Slutsky as the compatriot of Roman Abramovich searches for a first job outside of his homeland.

16/02/17 12:12

MATT LAWTON: Across the river from the Rostov Arena, which will stage five matches at next year's World Cup, a Russian football hooligan offers a chilling warning to England's travelling fans.

23/01/17 22:30

Vladimir Putin played a major role in the bid campaign and now the Kremlin will have the world’s spotlight on it as the venue where the 32 finalists will discover whom they face.

07/12/16 17:29

The Tottenham fan, who did not want to be named, says he will avoid the match because of his 'terrifying' experience in Marseille, where English and Russian fans clashed in the Stade Velodrome.

07/12/16 11:20

Slutsky, who has been linked with the Chelsea job in the past, has spent seven years in charge of CSKA Moscow and won the league title three times.

26/11/16 17:44

World champions Germany will also face Australia and the champions of Africa in the group stage of next year's tournament in Russia, which partially acts as a World Cup rehearsal.

15/11/16 19:57

Three days after being criticised by Vladimir Putin, Russia ended a run of poor form on Tuesday by beating Romania 1-0. Magomed Ozdoev grabbed a last-minute winner in the friendly.

30/10/16 01:21

Crowd trouble marred the Moscow derby between arch rivals Spartak and CSKA, with the Russian Premier League game briefly stopped as flares were thrown into rival groups of supporters.

25/10/16 13:11

England fans misbehaving at the Russia 2018 World Cup have been warned they will be thrown in fearsome Soviet-era 'sobering houses' where they will be stripped and tied to a bed if aggressive.

18/07/16 18:37

Construction on the new Zanit Stadium - which is scheduled to host a number of matches, including one of the semi-finals - began in 2007 but has fallen behind it's orginal schedule.

11/07/16 16:54

Euro 2016 may have got the final it deserved as Portugal beat France in a low-key affair on Sunday night, but the fans showed that they were the life and soul of the party over the past month.

04/07/16 23:23

The law will also allow the Interior Ministry to create a blacklist of fans who will be banned from attending events. The list will be published on the department's official website.

04/07/16 09:39

Euro 2016 in France has seen a return of football hooliganism in the stands and on the streets which had been largely absent from recent international competitions and UEFA want to tackle it.

26/06/16 14:56

Leonid Slutsky's resignation as Russia coach following their abject performance at the European Championship in France has been confirmed. Russia crashed out in the Euro 2016 group stage.

24/06/16 12:32

Guus Hiddink, who led Russia to the 2008 European Championship semi-finals, says he would be happy to return to his former side as they look to put an early Euro 2016 exit behind them.

23/06/16 16:38

The group stages have provided goals and controversies, outrageous skill and dreadful mistakes. Sportsmail takes a look at every nation and grade's their performance so far...

21/06/16 12:46

The Welsh talisman scored his third goal of the tournament to cap off a memorable night for Wales and is hopeful the Dragons can progress far into the tournament.

21/06/16 11:30

Russia boss Leonid Slutsky saw his team finish bottom of Group B at Euro 2016 and promptly admitted he should be replaced as manager following his team's 3-0 thumping by Wales.

21/06/16 10:48

EDGE OF THE BOX: When it comes to bringing a touch of the old bonhomie to proceedings, then I’d have to say that so far it has been ITV who have been hitting all the right buttons at the Euros.

21/06/16 10:40

Chris Coleman declared Wales are only just getting started and will advance without fear after watching his side demolish Russia to progress to the knock-out stages as Group B winners.

21/06/16 08:05

The Palace midfielder was last spotted strutting his stuff in Bosnia and Cardiff after the Welsh booked their Euro 2016 spot. The rest of the squad even got involved following the win over Andorra.

21/06/16 01:42

IAN LADYMAN AT THE STADIUM MUNICIPAL: Chris Coleman's Welsh team trounced Leonid Slutsky's Russians 3-0 in their final Group B tie at the Stadium Municipal in Toulouse on Monday.

20/06/16 22:34

A place in the last-16 of Euro 2016 is on the line as Wales and Russia hope to advance to the knock out stages when they clash in Toulouse in their final group games. Join MATT MALTBY for all the action.

20/06/16 10:05

Ahead of kick-off on Monday night, Sportsmail 's Martin Keown offers his assessment of the two big Group B games as England take on Slovakia in Saint-Etienne and Wales play Russia in Toulouse.

20/06/16 09:16

Following their heart-breaking last-gasp defeat by England, Wales will be using that loss as extra motivation to steer them past Russia and into the last 16.

19/06/16 23:35

Smolov has fanned the flames ahead of facing Wales by claiming Russia supporters only started fighting after provocation by British fans. Monday's Group B finale has now been classified 'high risk'.

19/06/16 17:00

Belgian hooligans have targeted celebrating England fans following their last-gasp victory over Wales as violent scenes in Lille were stopped by a large force of riot police.

19/06/16 13:27

The Kremlin has dismissed suggestions by senior British government officials that it deliberately sanctioned the violence by Russian football hooligans against England fans at Euro 2016.

19/06/16 10:53

Although the permutations over the third-place teams who will progress are complicated enough to require some serious mathematics the make-up of the individual groups are rather simpler.

18/06/16 00:41

Wales have vowed to take out their frustrations on Russia after their defeat by England. Ashley Williams insists that the tough times the squad have gone through will aid their recovery.

17/06/16 15:09

French plainclothes police used pepper spray as two groups of men squared up in the northern French city of Lille - just hours after a separate flare-up at a bar.

17/06/16 01:19

England are on the brink of qualifying for the knock-stages of Euro 2016 after victory over Wales. Sportsmail assesses the permutations in Group B heading into the final group matches.

16/06/16 11:23

UEFA has fined Russia €150,000 and warned that the country will be booted out of Euro 2016 if their thugs start more violence in stadiums.

16/06/16 10:03

THE DEBATE: Yes, the Russian thugs were responsible for scenes of extreme violence in Marseille. But are England fans able to take the moral high ground here? Hardly.

16/06/16 03:09

Russia supporters could have placed their nation's Euro 2016 participation into doubt on Wednesday after a flare was ignited in the stands when Denis Glushakov scored in their 2-1 defeat by Slovakia.

16/06/16 01:02

MATT BARLOW AT THE STADE PIERRE MAUROY: More tears for the Russians, this time without the gas as they slipped a little closer to elimination from Euro 2016.

15/06/16 19:20

Slovakia coach Jan Kozak has tipped Marek Hamsik to 'play for a very big club' after the midfielder inspired their 2-1 Euro 2016 defeat of Russia.

15/06/16 18:50

With the threat of disqualification hanging over their heads, Russia continue their Group B campaign against Slovakia on Wednesday. Join Sportmail's BEN NAGLE for all the action.

15/06/16 17:21

This shocking footage shows the moment a lone English supporter was beaten by a pack of fearsome Russian thugs after getting separated from his friends in Lille.

15/06/16 15:58

Russia, whose fans fought pitched battles in Marseille with their English counterparts at the weekend, are due to play Slovakia on Wednesday in Lille, where Three Lions fans are also gathering.

15/06/16 15:09

Supporters were seen battling it out after the final whistle as Russian fans ripped down English flags and ran after their rivals across rows of seats, just minutes after the Group B opener finished.

15/06/16 13:16

Following on from the chaos in Marseille last weekend there are growing concerns that Wednesday will be a flashpoint of violence, with Russian, English and Welsh fans all in Lille.

15/06/16 09:27

There was not a great deal of contrition on display from the Russian camp as they prepared for their second game of Euro 2016 under the looming threat of disqualification.

15/06/16 09:21

Leader of the official Russian football fans' group Alexander Shprygin, 38, has been pictured performing a Nazi salute at a Russian rock concert with a blonde woman flashing her breasts.

14/06/16 21:03

This shocking footage shows the new breed of super-fit Russian football hooligans battling it out in auditions to join the tight-knit group of 'hyper violent' thugs that brought carnage to the streets of Marseille.

14/06/16 20:27

Hardcore Turkish 'ultras' posted images of a meat cleaver and a baseball bat online to announce how prepared they were for any trouble at Euro 2016 currently being hosted in France.

14/06/16 18:19

Joey Barton has described Russian thugs who fought English fans in Marseille as 'highly organised', saying 'they operated like a military group' after encountering them before Saturday's game.

14/06/16 18:02

Saturday's violence was, at least in part, highly organised groups of Russian thugs intent on causing swift and serious damage to English fans regardless of if they were out for trouble or not.

14/06/16 17:10

Armed with bottles, chairs and metal poles and jogging like trained soldiers ready to go to war - this is how Russian hooligans stormed the streets of Marseille to clash with English fans.

14/06/16 16:41

Russia have been handed a final warning from UEFA with a 'suspended disqualification' from Euro 2016 imposed for their supporters' disorder during Saturday's 1-1 draw with England in Marseille.

14/06/16 15:43

Russian thugs chanted 'die, die, die' and spat at an England fan who had been beaten unconscious in Marseille. Andrew Bache, 51, was being given life-saving CPR by a French police officer.

14/06/16 13:46

ROB DRAPER: To be clear at the outset, part of me quite likes the fact that UEFA has threatened England with being kicked out of a tournament. If this doesn’t concentrate the mind, nothing will.

14/06/16 11:34

FA chairman Greg Dyke has hit back strongly at UEFA for blaming England and Russia fans in equal measure for the violence inside the Marseille stadium.

14/06/16 07:33

Officers struggled to contain the ‘extreme’ and ‘well trained’ paramilitary-style thugs who stormed England supporters at the end of the weekends Euro 2016 draw.

14/06/16 02:04

Eduard Bezuglov said inspectors came to the Russian camp on three occasions during the build-up to the tournament, testing 10 players at a time, and 'broke a record by coming at 6.30am.'

13/06/16 21:31

'I don't see anything wrong with the fans fighting,' read a post on Twitter on an account in the name of Igor Lebedev, a member of the Russian Football Association executive committee.

13/06/16 17:26

British experts said the trigger-happy use of tear gas merely served to inflame minor flashpoints that could have been snuffed out with more proactive policing in Marseille.

13/06/16 13:35

UEFA have threatened to ban England and Russia from Euro 2016 if there is further violence following ugly scenes in the Stade Vélodrome last night.

13/06/16 12:23

MARTIN SAMUEL: Just because we have suffered the new hooliganism, does not mean we should remain blind to our ancient own, revisited in an old stamping ground on a blighted long weekend.

13/06/16 09:32

CHARLES SALE AND MATT LAWTON: England and Russia have been threatened with expulsion from Euro 2016 after three days of disgraceful scenes in Marseille.

12/06/16 19:20

Russian football hooligans fired a flare gun into the England fans - in what appears to be a major security breach at the European Championships in France.

12/06/16 18:58

France's interior minister called on tough sanctions against England and Russia after violent clashes in Marseille and urged hosting cities to consider a ban on alcohol around match days.

12/06/16 17:31

These distressing images show the moment England fans in wheelchairs were caught up in the stadium violence when Balaclava-clad Russian thugs chased English fans across the terraces.

12/06/16 13:02

A last-gasp Vasili Berezutski goal denied England three points after Eric Dier looked to have given Roy Hodgson's side three points.

12/06/16 08:12

Gary Lineker has offered a damning verdict on those England supporters involved in hooliganism with Russia fans in Marseille ahead of the two teams' match at Euro 2016.

12/06/16 08:05

European football chiefs are to launch an urgent investigation into the crowd violence that flared inside Marseille's Stade Velodrome at the end of England's 1-1 draw against Russia.

12/06/16 08:02

OLIVER HOLT IN MARSEILLE: The memories of a draw England snatched from the jaws of victory against Russia here will mingle with recollections of hooligans' snarling faces.

12/06/16 01:38

ROB DRAPER AT STADE VELODROME: You can view it as unfortunate. Or you can point to old failings, familiar flaws and vulnerabilities which seemed to be ingrained in the national team.

11/06/16 23:39

MATT LAWTON IN MARSEILLE: Roy Hodgson said this team has been in the making for six months when the truth is probably nearer six days. It looked nothing like the side against Portugal.

11/06/16 23:38

SAM CUNNINGHAM AT THE OLD PORT IN MARSEILLE: England fans were tear-gassed by French police for a third day in a row after being attacked by Russian hooligans.

11/06/16 21:18

MATT BARLOW: Roman Neustadter changed his nationality and Russia's new recruit will attempt to transfer one of football's golden rules: that the Germans always beat the English when it matters.

11/06/16 18:51

Sportsmail asks our experts Martin Keown, Jamie Redknapp and Jamie Carragher the key questions surrounding England's opening match with Russia.

11/06/16 18:43

The expectation is always there for England, but on Saturday they kick-off their Euro 2016 campaign with very few back home assuming that the competition will bring any real success.

11/06/16 18:17

Graeme Le Saux has warned England’s current crop of stars about the dangers of underestimating Russia by insisting their Euro 2016 opener will be their hardest Group B clash.

11/06/16 00:54

Russia have accused England of taking them lightly ahead of their Euro 2016 opener in Marseille. Leonid Slutsky and Vasili Berezutski agree that England were insufficiently briefed on Russia's team.

10/06/16 22:22

Wayne Rooney has issued a passionate defence of his ability as England prepare for their Euro 2016 campaign. Rooney has fired a warning to Russia, claiming: 'I'm better than ever.'

10/06/16 17:44

Gary Neville has attracted controversy ahead of their Euro 2016 opener against Russia with an apparent tweet in relation to disgraced tennis star Maria Sharapova.

10/06/16 16:55

England's Saturday-night clash with Russia has been labelled as one of Euro 2016's most-combustible occasions – and, in Marseille's Stade Velodrome, it could not have a better venue.

10/06/16 14:19

The Russian WAGs descending on Marseilles this weekend include some of the brightest the country has to offer - including dentists, lawyers and chemists.

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