Monday, May 25, 2015

Russia plans to use prison labor for 2018 World Cup (Yahoo Sports)

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, right, speaks during a press conference on World Cup 2018 issues alongside organizing committee chief executive Alexei Sorokin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russian authorities want to use prison labor to drive down the costs of holding the 2018 World Cup. The Russian prison service is backing a bid by Alexander Khinshtein, a lawmaker from the ruling United Russia party, to allow prisoners to be taken from their camps to work at factories, with a focus on driving down the costs of building materials for World Cup projects. ''It'll help in the sense that there will be the opportunity to acquire building materials for a lower price, lower than there is currently on the market,'' Khinshtein told The Associated Press.




from Yahoo Sports http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/top/SIG=12t66mpau/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/russia-plans-prison-labor-2018-world-cup-135244894--sow.html

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