Norwegian TV company TV2 was not allowed to attend the ceremony for the 2018 World Cup toss-up. The Norwegian TV company TV2 was not allowed to attend the ceremony for the 2018 World Cup to be held on Friday, December 1, in Moscow. This writes The Independent Barents Observer. Journalist Eysteinu Bogen, who covered life in Russia for a long time, noted that the representative of the press service responsible for issuing accreditations informed him that the accreditation was probably revoked by the Federal Security Service. "I do not think that this happened once in the history of FIFA. The media, which has the right to cover the World Cup, has been deprived of accreditation by the host country of the tournament. Who else is on Putin's black list? Maybe only those media that did not criticize Russia on their airwaves, and will be invited to cover the matches, "said Bogen. Recall, the World Cup in Russia is scheduled from June 14 to July 15, 2018. But in Moscow they are afraid that the tournament may not take place. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused the West of preparing a campaign to disrupt the 2018 World Cup.

Original article: FSB banned coverage of the World Cup in football for the Norwegian TV company.