Russian President Vladimir Putin through the World Cup in 2018 wants to mislead the world community and make for a time forget about the military and international crimes of Russia.

This "Apostrophe" was told by the Russian opposition politician Konstantin Borovoi.

The politician noted that the Kremlin undoubtedly worries whether the world will boycott the 2018 World Cup in Russia, and Putin is trying to prove himself to be a civilized leader ready for negotiations.

"It is important for him to lift sanctions from Russia, and even in propaganda it is very easy to read the Kremlin's intentions: there is, for example, absolutely fictional news that Putin can return to G8. He wants to be a participant in the international process, while not changing his aggressive tactics of a leader who commits international, war crimes and crimes against humanity, violates his own international agreements, "he said..

Borovoy believes that by holding a massive sports event, Putin is trying to prove himself part of the world community.

"To make the world community, the West at least temporarily forget about war crimes, about the shot down Boeing, aggression against Ukraine and war crimes in Syria, about the fact that he supports another war criminal, Bashar Assad, and terrorist organizations that help and Iran, "he added..

"The task of Putin is to appear before the world white, clean and fluffy, so that citizens, politicians begin to ask themselves the question:" It seems to be adequate, normal, acceptable for world politics? Maybe we should change our attitude to Russia? "And in this case, Putin wants to use lies and deception to mislead the world community and make if not to forget, then at least some time not to talk about the military and international crimes of the Russian Federation. This is a transparent and understandable tactic, "- summed up the Russian oppositionist.