Russia has already made cuts in its budget for the tournament as falling prices for its oil exports and Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over its role in the Ukraine crisis squeeze the economy and government revenues.
The total costs of the 2018 World Cup have now been cut to 620.9 billion rubles from 626.9 billion rubles, Thursday's decree published on http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/ showed.
Russia won the right to host the tournament in 2010 and developed an ambitious plan for constructing stadiums and hotels. According to Interfax news agency, the original government decree, signed in 2013, set costs at 664 billion rubles but since then the figure has been reduced several times.
(Reporting by Polina Devitt; Editing by Ruth Pitchford)
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