By Dmitriy Rogovitskiy MOSCOW (Reuters) - Alarm bells are ringing loudly in Russia 18 months before the country hosts the World Cup after their team crashed to a morale-shattering loss to a Qatar side ranked 91st in the world. Russia endured a dismal European Championship this year in France where violent rampages by their fans and the team's inept performances on the pitch made headlines for all the wrong reasons. Just when Russian fans thought things could not get any worse, they have – with humbling defeats by Costa Rica and Qatar, the country that will host the 2022 World Cup.
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