MOSCOW, August 13. /TASS/. About 50 fans of Greek football club PAOK are expected in the capital of Russia for the UEFA Champions League qualifier against Spartak Moscow FC on Tuesday night, PAOK’s press service announced to TASS on Monday.

According to the press service, about 40-50 football fans of PAOK football club are expected to arrive in Moscow from directly from Greece, however, it was still unknown how many club’s fans will be in the Russian capital for the match arriving from other countries.

PAOK FC edged Russia’s Spartak Moscow FC 3-2 on August 8 at the 29,000-seat capacity Toumba Stadium. The return match of the Champions League qualifying stage between PAOK and Spartak will be held at the over 45,000-seat capacity Spartak Arena in Moscow on August 14 beginning at 8:30 p.m. local time (17:30 GMT).

Last week the UEFA announced that it opened disciplinary proceeding against PAOK FC over fans misbehavior during the club’s home match in Thessaloniki against Russia’s Spartak Moscow FC. The proceedings were opened on charges of "use of laser pointer" and "stairways blocked."

The UEFA, however, announced to TASS last week that it had decided against opening a probe into numerous reports on an alleged assault on Russian journalists at the match in Thessaloniki.

Russian journalists working at the match reported on their social media accounts that they had been attacked by PAOK’s fans before the match at an entrance to media tribune of the Toumba Stadium.

According to Russian journalists, security and stewards, responsible for safety at the sports facility, were inactive as Greek football fans assaulted them. PAOK FC press service later denied the allegations saying that a minor scuffle took place but had been immediately thwarted with the help of security officers.

Acting President of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Alexander Alayev told TASS last Thursday that the "the RFU launched its own probe into the incident and plans to turn to the UEFA to request a thorough investigation and make sure that all responsible are punished."

The press service of Spartak FC also said in a statement it hoped that the Greek authorities as well as the UEFA would hold an unbiased probe into the incident involving PAOK FC fans and Russian journalists.

Vladimir Markin, the head of the Russian Football Union’s (RFU) Committee on security and interaction with football fans, said in an interview with TASS that security services would provide order before, during and after the match in Moscow on Tuesday, while visiting football fans from Greece should be behaving within the legal norms.

After reports on the attack on Russian journalists at the Toumba Stadium in Thessaloniki last week, several social media network accounts of Spartak FC flashed statements about possibly aggressive answer to Greek football fans planning to come to Moscow for the second-leg match of the UEFA Champions League qualifiers.

"There will be nothing at all regarding the threats coming from Spartak FC fans," Markin said in an interview with TASS. "Security forces will make sure that safety is provided before, during and after the match."

"There are people, who work with Spartak FC fans and they will tell them what they can or cannot do during the match," he said. "I would like to advise Greek football fans, as well as the rest of football fans to behave within the legal norms, be respectful, and no problems should arise."