Spartak owner Fedun to open an anti-racism fund

Spartak Moscow owner Leonid Fedun announced он Tuesday that his club is financing a program aimed at stamping out racism and anti-Semitism in the Russian game, RIA Novosti reports.

The have been a number of unpleasant xenophobic incidents in Russian football over the past few years, including a number of cases, when bananas were thrown at dark-skinned players in the RPL, namely the Anzhi pair Roberto Carlos and Christopher Samba.

A couple of weeks back Spartak’s Nigerian striker Emanuel Emenike showed the middle finger to Dynamo fans who taunted him throughout the game and was given a conditional season ban, as well as a substantial fine.

«This foundation will first of all will conduct special public actions aimed at instilling a good atmosphere in the stands of Russian stadiums,» Fedun said. «So that the fans even during the most hard-core chanting don’t revert to national and race issues.»

After the game in Saint-Petersburg Fedun, through implication alleged that Zenit follow a policy of refusing to sign black players, and criticised the Russian champions for failing to stop its fans from acting provocatively.