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Moscow Times opinion: The Olympic test
In 2008, the Beijing Olympics showed that China’s post-communist system, for all its problems and shortcomings, definitely works. Four years from now, the Sochi Olympics may reveal that the post-Soviet Russia, for all its pretensions, doesn’t.

Moscow Times opinion: The Olympic test

Mar 9, 2010 at 00:40
Alexei Bayer writes: [Russian Prime Minister Vladimir] Putin surely couldn’t have chosen a more challenging test for his system [than to host the 2014 Olympics in Sochi].Not only will all the athletic and tourist facilities and communications and transportation infrastructure be built from scratch, but it will be a winter event on a summer beach. There are many things that could go wrong — and knowing Russia’s history, most of them will. Read the story here.

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