出版社：Research Centre for East European Studies and the Center for Security Studies
摘要：The 2014 Winter Olympic Games in the seaside resort city of Sochi has become a unique self-imposed burden for Russia. The massive preparative works for the Olympics have highlighted the state’s incapacity to manage vast construction and infrastructure projects effectively. The proximity of the Sochi Olympics site to areas of militant activity in the North Caucasus poses security risks for the games’ visitors that can hardly be ignored. In addition, the Olympic games in Sochi have revived a skeleton in Russia’s closet—the Circassian genocide issue, a people that once occupied the lands around Sochi, but were partly exterminated and driven out by the Russian empire in the 19th century.
