I've heard of this kind of thing happening before. There was an account of it in the excellent book All Played Out by Pete Davies, a journalist who followed England throughout Italia 90. Scum hacks from the redtops were apparently bribing local thugs to start trouble with the England fans in...
This. Can very much see it all going off there, as it did the last time England played in Marseille in the 1998 World Cup.
Russians have an abnormally high tosspot ratio when abroad, and we'll have our usual supply of meatheads there too. I'll be amazed if it doesn't all kick off at some point...