http://day.kyiv.ua/ru/blog/obshchestvo/kak-putin-i-medvedev-pod-mundial-rossiyan-oschastlivili
http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5B2894A573D6C
Both Russians and foreign visitors can get a closer look at each other, without the usual filters.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-18/you-can-hate-putin-but-love-the-world-cup
https://www.gazeta.ru/comments/column/bovt/11805049.shtml
https://www.rbc.ru/newspaper/2018/06/18/5b23a5b39a7947af79c68ff8
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3661262
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3661616