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Hello! This is Gia Saralidze in the studio of Vestnik Kavkaza.
We're talking about the most interesting events in the world of football and around football.
Today in the first part of our program I would like to discuss an event which will influence the situation at Russian stadiums and around stadiums.
Recently a closed session was held.
Top football officials, including the minister of sport Vitaly Mutko, met fans and discussed the law on football fans and measures
that should be taken to change the current situation in Russian football stadiums.
Firstly, I don't understand why the session was closed.
The issue discussed, moreover with participation of fan communities, should be known by the wider public,
the wider layers of fans.
It just confirms that our football officials prefer to deal and settle security problems,
providing football matches with those who present a potential threat.
On the one hand, this is right because the issue should be settled with them.
On the other hand, the policy of pacification and concessions only led to the fact
that some fan movements are becoming more and more impudent.
Developments in the last year and the last season have demonstrated that it had reached its limits,
beyond which very serious sanctions will be launched and the problem will be solved by repressions.
Perhaps the fact that officials try to agree with organized fan communities is positive,
but considering the information which appeared after this session in the mass media,
the strict law which they wanted to adopt on a ban on attending stadiums, criminal punishment, and so on is forgotten.
Now they say that no very serious and strict measures will be taken.
Probably this is right, but I would like to understand the position of football officials,
why they initially stated that the law would be tough but have now decided to reconsider this.
It would be nice to understand the reasons of these people who make such decisions.
We'll see, perhaps in the near future they will explain to us what is going on and we will watch how the law will be changed.
Nevertheless, at the moment the rights and security of ordinary fans
who attend stadiums just to watch football and support their team, not being a member of a fan community,
are not protected by anyone. We see the result of this. Fewer and fewer ordinary people attend stadiums.
And less and less time is left till the World Cup which will be held in our country.
We thought it is far away, but it is not so. The problem remains and is becoming worse.
It is not clear how football officials want to solve such acute and important problems by these means.
We will follow the developments. We always talk about what is happening around football and the fan movement.
It is one of the pages which will show whether serious measures will be taken by football officials or not.
The next part of our program is dedicated to international issues, the Africa Cup is being held these days.
I would like to discuss this and remember some episodes from the past in the next part of our program.