The 2014 Winter Olympics
The 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia. Sochi is 34km from the border with Abkhazia, one of the breakaway provinces of Georgia. Here’s a map of the area; Sochi is in the north-west/top-left corner.
Read into it what you will; however, it seems likely that there will be problems. Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg has raised the possibility of the Czech Republic boycotting the games. There will likely be a large security build-up for the games, very close to a trouble spot. As well as Russophiles, there are Abkhazians who remain at best wary and at worst hostile to Russia. Sochi, on the Black Sea, is in a strategically important position, near the Crimea, that Russia eyes. Certainly, it’s one to watch.
xD.
September 16th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Oh yes – even I can vouch for that. Even before I left, there were great rumblings about the project which will decimate the area.
September 16th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Could you tell me more about it? Do people in Sochi like the idea of the Olympics coming to their city?
xD.