'Pussy Riot' member says detained after World Cup pitch invasion

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Published : 23:17, Jul 15, 2018 | Updated : 23:19, Jul 15, 2018

World Cup - Final - France v Croatia - Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia - July 15, 2018 A steward apprehends a pitch invader as he approaches Croatia`s Dejan Lovren REUTERSOlga 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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