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Esquire Magazine: Sochi’s Olympic Road as Caviar

Russian Esquire calculates how much caviar could be bought for the $8 billion being spent on single road for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi – and what a road paved with that much caviar would look like.

July 13th, 2010 | R J | Comments Off | Continued
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Sochi Gov’t Reaches Deal with Hunger Strikers

Residents facing eviction in Sochi have ended a 24-day hunger strike after local authorities agreed to address their concerns.

June 18th, 2010 | R J | Comments Off | Continued
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FSB, Police Seize 200 Thousand Copies of Anti-Putin Report

Of the million copies of “Putin. Results. 10 Years” printed by the opposition movement Solidarity, police and Federal Security Service officers have now seized a full one-fifth and subjected the documents to review for extremism.

June 17th, 2010 | R J | Comments Off | Continued
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Sochi Hunger Strike Continues Past 16th Day

A hunger strike by residents facing eviction from their homes in Sochi to make way for Olympic construction has continued, and been blockaded throughout the Russian media, for more than two weeks.

June 4th, 2010 | R J | Comments Off | Continued
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Evicted Sochi Residents Go on Hunger Strike

Residents in Sochi who are being forcibly evicted from their homes to make way for Olympic construction are going on hunger strike to protest a lack of fair compensation for their property by the local government.

May 20th, 2010 | R J | Comments Off | Continued
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Sochi Mayor Orders Residents to Paint Roofs Red

The Mayor of Sochi is ordering residents to paint their roofs red in preparation for the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics, because “our roofs and fences must be identical.”

April 22nd, 2010 | R J | Comments Off | Continued
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Scientist Critical of Olympic Construction Flees Russia

A top geologist working as a consultant for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi has fled to Ukraine, fearing that he may be arrested on trumped-up charges motivated by his warnings about construction for the games.

April 19th, 2010 | R J | Comments Off | Continued
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Kasparov Discusses Chess, Politics in Georgia Visit

During a visit this week to a friend and chess colleague in Georgia, Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov met with Georgian leadership and journalists to discuss the state of Russia-Georgia relations.

March 18th, 2010 | R J | Comments Off | Continued
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A Historical Dead End: Putin Must Go

An online petition demanding the resignation of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has gathered thousands of signatures in just over a week, and presents a scathing indictment of the country’s current state of affairs.

March 18th, 2010 | R J | Comments Off | Continued
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Unpaid Olympic Workers Continue Hunger Strike

Construction workers hired for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi are continuing a hunger strike taken up last Thursday in protest to their contractors’ failure to pay their wages in more than three months.

March 16th, 2010 | R J | Comments Off | Continued
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