Russia has been handed a suspended disqualification from Euro 2016 over crowd disturbances at the game against England in Marseille.
UEFA announced its decision as a group of Russian football fans faced being thrown out of France - and footage filmed by hooligans appeared to demonstrate that attacks on English supporters in Marseille before the match were well-planned.
The Russian football federation was also fined €150,000 - and the national team will be kicked out of the tournament if there is any repeat of the violence inside the Stade Velodrome in its remaining games, UEFA said.
Home Secretary Theresa May condemned the disorder in the House of Commons and echoed calls from Roy Hodgson and Wayne Rooney for England fans to behave themselves at the team's remaining games, while Downing Street confirmed a small number of extra British public order and transport police were being sent to France.
The identities of 29 Russian fans were being checked at a hotel near the southern French port city after a bus was stopped, but authorities told AFP a decision had already been taken to move some of them to a holding centre at the border.
French police are checking to see if any of the Russians are on a list of supporters "considered a risk", said Francois-Xavier Lauch, a top local official in the Alpes-Maritimes area.
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