Russian launch video gaffe forces re-edit of Crimea reference

Russia 2018 logo on Bolshoi

By Andrew Warshaw
October 31 – FIFA have been forced to apologise for a politically embarrassing gaffe after a video launching the logo for the 2018 World Cup in Russia displayed the disputed Crimean peninsula as being part of Russian territory.

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