ALJAZAM Listening Post February 3, 2014
The good and the bad. Next week, russia will be hosting the world and the global news media at the Winter Olympics in sochi. Consider the cost. 51 billion. Then compare it to what came before. Vancouver in 2010 at just 8 billion. It has been a huge endeavor for the kremlin that amounts to a Public Relations megaproject. In the News Coverage may well determine if the russians get value for money. Journalists in sochi are using these games as a news peg to get at other stories about russia. There is the contentious gay propaganda law, the Environmental Impact of the sochi Development Projects an...
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