The budget for Russia's 2018 World Cup is "final," according to the country's Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko.
Russia cut its budget for the 2018 World Cup in August -- in part by abandoning plans to build a new TV tower -- a trend of repeated cuts this year in line with a wide policy of reducing government spending.
The Russian government later that month proposed a 12.5 billion ruble ($175m) increase to its budget for the tournament, and Mutko -- also Russian Football Union (RFU) president and a FIFA Executive Committee member -- announced on Thursday that the World Cup will be subject to no further cost-saving measures.
Russian news agency TASS quotes Mutko as telling journalists: "We are not going back to the issue of optimising infrastructure construction costs.
"We have adjusted minimal requirements concerning the accommodation, stadiums' capacity, training sites. The budget is final, safeguarded and there won't be any further cuts."
The government had been keen to cut costs given that the Russian economy shrank 4.6 percent in the second quarter of the year. In June, Russia cut 29.2 billion rubles ($459m) from the World Cup budget, cancelling plans for several hotels.
TASS reports that the number of pre-tournament training sites planned across Russia had been cut to from 48 to 37, while the seating capacity of two out of 12 stadiums selected for matches has been cut by 22 percent.
Sepp Blatter told TASS on Wednesday that there was an agreement in place for the 2018 World Cup to go to Russia even before the vote took place.
Blatter, currently suspended as FIFA president, told the Russian news agency that the tournament was always lined up to go to Russia with the 2022 World Cup to be held in the United States -- until UEFA president Michel Platini decided to throw his weight behind Qatar.
England, Spain/Portugal and Belgium/Netherlands spent tens of millions of pounds on bidding against Russia.
The 79-year-old, who was also heavily critical of Platini, England the United States over what he feels are efforts to force him out of his job, did not expand on who exactly had "agreed" for Russia to be hosts.
Later on Wednesday, Football Association chairman Greg Dyke told politicians at a FIFA hearing at the UK parliament in London that world football's governing body "is a corrupted organisation and it has been for 40 years," and said the FA will investigate Blatter's claims regarding the Russian World Cup.
Information from Press Association Sport and the Associated Press was used in this report.