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    "Independent" journo talks to Nikolai: Rus football fan & military vet who was helping wounded militants in Donbas
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7082531.html

    BUT WAIT...maybe Russia is using them to sideline the following deep and serious discussion on whether Russia will be allowed at all to attend any future sporting event....After stating publicly they are fully complying with WADA.

    Russia2016
    World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) wanted to test 1191 Russian athletes for doping.

    38% negative
    4% positive
    58% avoided the test.


    Their soccer team tried unsuccessfully to avoid several of their players from being tested after their match yesterday as is required of all participants to the EM.

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    Social media open source analysis has ID'd one of the Russian "ultras"......

    Alexander didn't change much since then.
    He with a "New Russian Empire" flag in Ostrava, Czech Republic, May 2015.


    Five more being possibly ID'd as being from the fighting in eastern Ukraine.....social media is looking at their FB/VK accounts to confirm.

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    Sorry in German....German MSM carried a solid report on the Russian "ultras" yesterday.

    tagesthemen ‏@tagesthemen
    "Geplant und organisiert." @o_sundermeyer in den online-@tagesthemen zur Gewalt von #Hooligans bei der #euro2016

    Violence...planned and organized.......

    Sehr profunde Einschätzungen zu den russ. Hooligans in der Online Ausgabe von #Tagesthemen

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    Watch what Russian football fans back home think of the violence at #EURO2016
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36542662

    For Putin and Russians in general...it is always "someone else"......

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    Russian FM attempted yesterday to "protect" him by claiming he was an official member of the EM 2016 Russian sport delegation.....Paris did not "buy" the Russian FM's statements......

    Probably a surprise this morning to the Russians that Paris was in fact serious about tossing someone out of France.

    Euro 2016: France expels Russia far-right fan chief Shprygin - BBC News
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36546183

    Will be interesting to see if Russia wants to increase their attitude and risk the WC 2018 and be tossed out of France altogether OR tone it down?????

    Especially coupled with the recent massive rejection by Russian athletes (58% of 1200 with 10% being found to be doping) to do the latest round of WADA testing...which will end up in basically kicking Russia out of all international sporting events now and in the futures AND for Russia sports is all about "war".....ie "winning at all costs"......

    WADA says meldonium the performance enhancement drug was in 49 out of 52 adverse tests on Russian athletes
    http://www.unian.info/world/1377244-...-athletes.html

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    French riot police calls them "hooligans" or "paramilitary groups".
    But MEDIA must remain "neutral" again ...


    AFP news agency Verified account 
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    #BREAKING Russian fans jailed for up to 2 years for Euro 2016 violence

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    Russian Talk Show Host Drowns Out Russian Sportscaster Telling Truth About Fan Violence
    http://www.interpretermag.com/russia...16-2016/#14225

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