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On January 7, 2014 State Duma Deputy and RIAC Member Valentina Tereshkova and the winner of the 2nd Foreign Affairs Journalists Contest Anastasia Popova participated in the Sochi Winter Olympics opening ceremony and brought the Olympic flag to the Fisht Stadium together with Chulpan Khamatova, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Valery Gergiev, Lydia Skoblikova and Alan Yenileyev.

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On January 7, 2014 State Duma Deputy and RIAC Member Valentina Tereshkova and the winner of the 2nd Foreign Affairs Journalists Contest Anastasia Popova participated in the Sochi Winter Olympics opening ceremony and brought the Olympic flag to the Fisht Stadium together with Chulpan Khamatova, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Valery Gergiev, Lydia Skoblikova and Alan Yenileyev.

On February 4, 2014 Anastasia Popova won the 2nd Russian Contest of Foreign Affairs Journalists in nomination Best Report on International Relations for material The War in Syria: the Rebels Have Become More Compliant (Vesti).