Russia's Dutch coach Dick Advocaat on Thursday ruled out shifting his team's Euro 2012 base from a central Warsaw hotel out of concerns about a politically-sensitive rally only days into the event.
The Polish sports minister had earlier confirmed asking Russia to consider moving out of the swanky Le Meridien Bristol because of a rally planned outside the neighboring presidential palace for June 10.
The monthly event honours the late Polish head of state Lech Kaczynski and members of his government who died in a 2010 plane crash outside the Russian city of Smolensk while flying to a World War II memorial site.
Many Poles still give credit to conspiracy theories about Russian involvement in the death of the Moscow-critical Kaczynski.
Russia is paired with Poland along with Greece and the Czech Republic in Group A and will play the hosts in the Polish capital on June 12.
But Advocaat told reporters that Russia was fortunate to get the highly-desired central location and had no intention of moving out now.
"This hotel was a part of UEFA," said the Dutchman. "A lot of teams wanted to go in and we fortunately could go there."
He further dismissed the controversy as a product of the media starving for stories ahead of the high-profile tournament's June 8 kickoff date.
"It is time for media and television, they have to find something, they have to write. If they don't write, they have no copy," Advocaat said.
"When the Euro competition starts they probably will go about football, now they try to find all kind of things."
Russia's Euro 2012 training base will be at a stadium in Sulejowek near Warsaw.
Sports Minister Joanna Mucha said on Wednesday that she was waiting for a formal response to her request from the Russian Football Union to move the team and expected "a final decision in a few days".
