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2018

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  08.06.2018 New stadium: Mordovia gets the spotlight

  Many found it hard to believe that the football-crazy Krasnodar didn't make the list, while obscure Saransk did. But when other cities didn't even have renderings, Saransk already had construction ongoing. Enough to strengthen Russia's World Cup bid.

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  09.05.2018 South Africa: Scandal over plagiarism non-issue

  The 'scandal' exploded in hours, resulting in Russians releasing a statement and the architect of the original stadium being asked how he feels about 'suspicious similarities' in Mordovia Arena. How is this what journalists take time to cover?

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  10.04.2018 Russia 2018: Penultimate stadium ready for use

  Now it's only Samara still struggling to reach the finish line as Mordovia Arena has been given permission for use on Monday. The stadium in Saransk is one of the more curious investments of the World Cup.

2015

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  11.09.2015 Russia 2018: Lower stands growing in Saransk

  Half of the monolithic concrete structure is ready in Saransk. The World Cup stadium with highest percentage of temporary seats will soon see first steel elements installed.

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  05.06.2015 Russia 2018: Pressure mounts, less time and money

  “Main task: price cannot go up by a single ruble”, said Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, who sounds extremely optimistic. If the price stays still, it will only be at the expense of quality.

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  19.04.2015 Russia 2018: Stadiums 30-40% more expensive

  Russian sports minister confirmed stadiums may again prove more expensive than expected. Each of the ongoing projects may cost 30-40% more, coming after previous 50-100% increase.

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  15.04.2015 Russia: The fight to keep stadium budget from inflating

  Russian prime minister ordered to replace imported components with domestic products where possible. This should help with keeping budgets from overruns.

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  23.01.2015 Russia 2018: Works in Saransk need to speed up

  Since they’ve been halted in 2013, almost nothing new has happened on the site of future World Cup stadium. Authorities have no doubts: progress needs to be faster.

2014

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  29.12.2014 Russia 2018: „Our stadiums aren’t more expensive”. But they are…

  General director of Sports In, company running 7 projects for the 2018 World Cup, argues Russian stadia aren’t more expensive than in other countries. But he presented the public with manipulated data to make his case.

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  04.06.2014 Russia 2018: Better late than over budget?

  Russian Ministry of Economic Development refused to accept a notion by the Sports Ministry to skip financial audits in order to speed up World Cup stadiums progress. Report by Saint Petersburg Times.

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  13.03.2014 Russia 2018: Sports Minister slams delayed stadia

  Despite very generous funding, Russian World Cup stadiums suffer from very severe setbacks. Sports Minister admits there’s trouble in every region. Unless all projects get under construction this year, heads will roll.

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  28.02.2014 Russia 2018: Stadium prices to inflate further?

  The Russian Sports Ministry suggests to cancel all financial audits for 2018 World Cup stadiums. This is expected to increase work pace on delayed stadiums. But this might increase costs further, while they already highly exceed earlier estimations.

2013

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  30.09.2013 Russia: Works in Saransk to last until 2017?

  It was one of the very first projects to see groundbreaking, but works didn't even last a year before the site was abandoned. Now a new construction tender is expected to resume works in early 2014, but the stadium won't be ready until FIFA's deadline of 2017.

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  24.08.2013 2018 World Cup: Last seven stadiums to go under construction

  While works in Kazan are done and finishing in Sochi, most projects for the 2018 World Cup still only exist on paper. This is to change now, as contract to build all seven remaining has been granted to FGUP Sport-inzhiniring.

2012

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  23.06.2012 New construction: Stadion Yubileyniy Saransk

  Their local team just earned promotion to the Premier League, not mentioning the upcoming 2018 World Cup. Saransk is doing a whole lot for the city of its modest size. FIFA has just visited and admires progress made. Now we can as well.