Sochi 2014: Two Trials for Russia

... sometimes confused. Old-fashioned notions of Russian culture from Tolstoy, Pushkin and Dostoevs ky are combined with extremely simplified patterns, which are substituted, only with new faces and characters. Photo: Itar-Rass/Barcroft Media The start of the Russian leg of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Torch Relay at Red Square in Moscow The image of Russia is, in many ways, an image of extremes. Russia is authoritarian, imperial, corrupt, inconvenient, poor (but also rich), unpredictable, full of raw resources, one-dimensional,...