The Russian government has proposed a 12.5 billion ruble ($175m) increase to its budget for the 2018 World Cup, reversing a trend of repeated cuts this year.
A document written by the Sports Ministry and published on a Russian government database on Monday envisages the increase, which would take the budget to 643.8 billion rubles ($9 billion).
That document and another published on Monday proposed various changes to many training bases that will be built for the tournament, but it was not clear if those changes were responsible for the budget hike.
Russia has been keen to cut World Cup costs this year in line with a wide policy of reducing government spending. Russia's economy shrank 4.6 percent in the second quarter of the year.