World Cup hosting may boost Russia’s GDP by $3.4bn per year

Football’s World Cup competition can boost Russia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 150 billion to 210 billion rubles (about $2.43 billion to $3.40 billion) per year over the next five years.
This submission was according to a study by the 2018 tournament’s organising committee released on Wednesday.
The study said the World Cup added 867 billion rubles to Russia’s GDP between 2013 and 2018.