In the balmy Moscow summer, Russians danced through Sunday night to celebrate their national football team’s improbable passage to the World Cup quarter finals, after a penalty shootout against Spain. The Russian authorities more broadly are basking in a championship that has been high-quality, good-natured, and given Russians a chance to mingle with foreigners that many have never had before.
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A Russian ruble coin is pictured in front of the Kremlin in in central Moscow, on Nov. 6, 2014.
