Thirty years on, and the attitude could not have been more different. The driver behind this change was the Games. Sochi’s election as host city in 2007 led – for the first time – to Russian ...

“Ten years ago, the same sort of effort in Sochi would have been much more difficult and more expensive from a logistical point of view,” Gorin said. As with the games themselves, which cities ...

The main building of Vladimir Putin's Bocharov Ruchey residence in Sochi has been completely demolished, reports Proekt. The dictator has also reportedly stopped flying to his cherished city.

These structures are now wan and disintegrating, the fronds of Slavic palm trees wafting over a more provincial clientele in one of Russia’s few subtropical cities. Though Sochi is host to these ...

SOCHI, October 18. /TASS/. More than 25,000 visited the World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS) in Sochi, the festival’s press service reported on Wednesday. The regional part of the youth ...

What do you do with 40,000 hotel rooms? More specifically, what do you do with 40,000 hotel rooms in a not-so-well known or popular city in Russia.

4 Institute for Sport, Exercise Medicine and Lifestyle Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa Objective To describe the epidemiology of illness at the Sochi 2014 ...

Sochi 2014 volunteers can also cheer on the athletes in their free time. Sales statistics More than 350,000 new users visit the tickets.sochi2014.com site daily. In just the first few hours from ...