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A striker is evacuated from the football pitch during the Russia 2018 World Cup final football match between France and Croatia at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on July 15, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Alexander NEMENOV)
Olga Kurachyova, a member of the anti-Kremlin Russian punk band 'Pussy Riot', said on Sunday she was one of the people who ran onto the pitch at the final of the soccer World Cup and that she had now been detained by the police.
Kurachyova told Reuters by phone she was in a police station at Moscow's Luzhniki stadium where the final match, between France and Croatia, was briefly interrupted by four people who invaded the pitch.
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