MOSCOW STUDENTS PROTEST AGAINST WORLD CUP

The  students at Moscow State University are against a recently re-elected President Vladimir Putin whose administration has gone all out to ensure the month-long football extravaganza goes off without a hitch.


 Official 2018 FIFA World Cup match-ball area will have concerts and entertainment for up to 25,000 fans with giant interactive screen for those without tickets to watch  the matches. It is being built in the park below the main building of Moscow State University, which is one of the city’s seven Stalinist skyscrapers which overlooks the Luzhniki stadium where the opening match will be played on June 14, 2018 as well as the final on July 15, 2018.

 Many of the university’s over 6,000 students and employees are not thrilled about their campus hosting the fan zone because of the disruption and damage it will cause. When the students were interviewed, some commented that they protested when they told them last year that their semester would be cut short because of the fan zone.\


It was added that the university labs have to close for the World Cup period because of their work with radioactive materials. There was also a risk that students will be moved out of their dorms to make way for the National Guard, like in other World Cup cities.