Flat owners in all cities set to host matches for Russia 2018 - including less-known ones such as Samara, Saransk and Rostov - are hiking up their prices ahead of the tournament in June and July with an average increase of more than 300 per cent. I’ve looked through many apartments and one of them surprised me most!

This is a one-roomed flat which costs 1,300$ per day. In Saransk. Is it the price for a flat in Saransk or for the whole Saransk? 

  

1,300$ for such an old flat. It could cost such money in case George VI lived there himself. Or maybe they have Big Ben instead an alarm clock.

Having a look at these prices, the British understand why Russian oligarchs move to London. They just can't afford themselves to rent a flat in Russia. And I have a strong assumption that buying a flat in Saransk is cheaper than renting. And buying a car is more profitable than taking a taxi.

To compare: this is an apartment in Paris for 275$ per day.

It’s almost 5 times cheaper than that one in Saransk.

And if you’re a host it’s no need to worry that the fans will smash the apartment. The money from renting is enough to repair this one and even to buy another.

Here are some more examples of common flats by the royal apartments’ price:

Samara 1600$ per day

Kaliningrad 1600$ per day 

Nizhniy Novgorod 3200$ per day

Prices in the capital, Moscow, where the final will take place on July 15 are up more than 100 percent compared with July last year.

The smallest price increases are in Kazan (27 per cent) where France, Australia, Iran and Spain compete in the group stage. Accommodation in St Petersburg will be 70 per cent more expensive in June.

As for the hotels the situation is even worse. Hotels in Russia rise the prices up to 18,000 per cent during this summer's World Cup. More than 1.5 million foreign football fans are expected to visit Russia. Can you count the profit?

The journalists have "named and shamed" some hotels for raising rates. The Hotel Agora, near the football stadium in Kaliningrad, is at top of the list. It settled a price of $2,300 for a room on a booking website instead of the state-regulated $42. Hotel Agora’s administrator said the 5,000 percent price hike was a mistake. “System failures happen, don’t they?” she told the RBC business portal.

The Tikhiye Sady hotel in Rostov-on-Don ranked second with a price hike of 2,581 percent, followed by another zero-star hotel in Kaliningrad.

In Moscow, the Hotel Petrovka 17 — close to the Bolshoi Theatre — is accused of a four-fold hike to 590$ a night during the World Cup.

A dormitory bed at the Kaliningrad In Like Hostel is selling for 74$ on the night of the opening game, six times the normal rate.

Russia's consumer protection agency says 539 hotels have been fined for raising their prices during hosting 2018 FIFA World Cup. But all we could do is stay enthusiastic and enjoy the game of the team you support. At home or in a pub.