This article is titled “What is More Convincing for World Cup 2018 Fans? Russia’s Edgy New Tourism Logo or Their Governments’ Dire Warnings?”. The World Cup is being hosted by Russia this year at 11 different locations across the country. The article details the intense competition between countries to be chosen as the host country for the 2018 World Cup. Russia’s federal tourism agency launched their new brand for this called, “The Whole World Within Russia” to show the large amount of different cultures within the Russian Federation.
New Logo for Russia’s Tourism Advertisement// russia-brand.com
The article explains that despite the preparation for the masses of tourists for the games, the estimation of the number of people has been lowered due to other countries warning their citizens about traveling in Russia and even showcases several tweets by both the United States and France with updated travel advisories to Russia that get denounced by the Russian Foreign Ministry. The article also includes how the tourism agency looks more towards Latin America for the bigger tourism stays since they are geographically farther away than fans who live in Europe. Even if it is mostly during the month of June, there will indeed be a whole world within Russia for the 2018 World Cup.
The images of the tweets in the article are links to the actual country’s news pages that wrote articles about the travel advisories. Many of the statements made were highlighted as links to the articles the information was taken from, mainly is Russian news. For example, the article explained how Russia was working with FIFA on a visa-free travel regime for people during the World Cup to make traveling easier for tourists. This can be investigated by clicking on the highlighted text which takes you to the FIFA World Cup website that gives details about what is being called the “Fan ID”.
This article was written by Christopher Moldes, a contributor of Global Voices for over a year and a half, who writes selectively about events in Russian and Eastern Europe. The supporting evidence in this article about the countries who updated their travel advisories to their citizens were tweets of people who mostly were against the increased safety risks put out by said countries. There was nothing mentioned on if there was actual empirical evidence that would warrant these updated advisories in the article either. Overall, it was not an opinion piece as much as informative, but there was still some satirical phrases towards the countries who were trying to deter citizens from travelling to Russia for the 2018 World Cup.