Africa The number of the day : 21 billion Euros for the 2018 World Cup

The budget for the organization of the World Russia 2018 will know an increase of nearly six billion Euros. Russia plans to spend 21 billion Euros for the football World Cup, said Tuesday Sports Minister, Vitaly Mutko.

Reassessed first (at the end of 2012) to 664 billion rubles (15, 5 billion), 5, 2 billion assumed by private investors, the construction budget for this world is insufficient. “It still needed 250 billion rubles ($ 5.8 billion) of additional funding,” said Minister Mutko.

For this World Cup that will be played in 11 cities, including Russia must build new stadiums, airports and hotels, which is estimated to date to € 21 billion. A sum twice that announced by Vladimir Putin in 2010, when Russia was named host of the 2018 World Cup.


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