Russia have two World Cup qualifiers over the course of the rest of the Premier League season - at home to minnows Azerbaijan on 28 March and away to Liechtenstein four days later.

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An independent investigation by supporters of the hacktivist collective Anonymous claimed in March that a Virginia-based firm called Booze Allen Hamilton was supplying spying software to the government of Azerbaijan.

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