Croatian national team returned home after World Cup-2018.

At home they greeted the team warmly. Thousands of fans filled the central square of Zagreb.

"Welcome home!" - reported on the official website of the Croatian national team in the social network. Recall, the French team defeated Croatia 4: 2 and for the second time in history became the world champion. And the Croatian national team scored an incredible achievement and for the first time in history reached the World Cup final. Prior to this, the biggest achievement was the third place "checkered" 20 years ago - in 1998.

___________________ Recall that 9 countries, including Ukraine, Australia, Finland, Japan, Denmark, Iceland, Great Britain, Poland, Sweden, declared a diplomatic boycott of the World Championship in Russia. The reasons for this were the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine and Syria, the poisoning of Russian ex-intelligence agent Sergey Skripal in Britain, the starvation of Ukrainian political prisoners, including the director Oleg Sentsov, and the systematic violation of human rights in the Russian Federation.

Unlimited hunger strike Sentsov announced May 14, 2018. His main demand is the release of more than 60 Ukrainian political prisoners who are behind bars in Russia. This requirement of the director was supported by the US State Department, the EU, the Canadian Parliament and.

In 2015, a Russian court illegally sentenced Sentsov to 20 years in a strict-security colony. The actions in support of the director were held all over the world, including in Russia.