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By Dmitriy Rogovitskiy MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and Ukraine might be put into different groups at the 2018 World Cup finals if the Ukrainians qualify and relations between the two countries do not improve, FIFA said on Tuesday. However, FIFA denied a comment attributed to President Sepp Blatter, who was quoted by the R-Sport agency as saying "you can be sure about this" in reply to a question about whether the two countries would be kept apart. "The President did not say that they would be kept apart or that such a decision has been made. ...

By Dmitriy Rogovitskiy MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and Ukraine might be put into different groups at the 2018 World Cup finals if the Ukrainians qualify and relations between the two countries do not improve, FIFA said on Tuesday. However, FIFA denied a comment attributed to President Sepp Blatter, who was quoted by the R-Sport agency as saying "you can be sure about this" in reply to a question about whether the two countries would be kept apart. "The President did not say that they would be kept apart or that such a decision has been made. ...

By Dmitriy Rogovitskiy MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and Ukraine might be put into different groups at the 2018 World Cup finals if the Ukrainians qualify and relations between the two countries do not improve, FIFA said on Tuesday. However, FIFA denied a comment attributed to President Sepp Blatter, who was quoted by the R-Sport agency as saying "you can be sure about this" in reply to a question about whether the two countries would be kept apart. "The President did not say that they would be kept apart or that such a decision has been made. ...

By Dmitriy Rogovitskiy MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and Ukraine might be put into different groups at the 2018 World Cup finals if the Ukrainians qualify and relations between the two countries do not improve, FIFA said on Tuesday. However, FIFA denied a comment attributed to President Sepp Blatter, who was quoted by the R-Sport agency as saying "you can be sure about this" in reply to a question about whether the two countries would be kept apart. "The President did not say that they would be kept apart or that such a decision has been made. ...

By Dmitriy Rogovitskiy MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and Ukraine might be put into different groups at the 2018 World Cup finals if the Ukrainians qualify and relations between the two countries do not improve, FIFA said on Tuesday. However, FIFA denied a comment attributed to President Sepp Blatter, who was quoted by the R-Sport agency as saying "you can be sure about this" in reply to a question about whether the two countries would be kept apart. "The President did not say that they would be kept apart or that such a decision has been made. ...

By Dmitriy Rogovitskiy MOSCOW Russia (Reuters) - Russia has rejected a FIFA recommendation to cut the number of host cities for the 2018 World Cup from 11 to nine and stadiums from 12 to 10, according to Russia sports minister Vitaly Mutko. -x9cThe plan that we will have 12 stadiums in 11 cities, which will host matches at the World Cup is not changing,-x9d Mutko told the ITAR-TASS news agency on Tuesday. "FIFA recommends that we should have 10 stadiums in nine cities, which include two arenas in Moscow.

By Dmitriy Rogovitskiy MOSCOW Russia (Reuters) - Russia has rejected a FIFA recommendation to cut the number of host cities for the 2018 World Cup from 11 to nine and stadiums from 12 to 10, according to Russia sports minister Vitaly Mutko. -x9cThe plan that we will have 12 stadiums in 11 cities, which will host matches at the World Cup is not changing,-x9d Mutko told the ITAR-TASS news agency on Tuesday. "FIFA recommends that we should have 10 stadiums in nine cities, which include two arenas in Moscow.