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Sochi Games the Most Expensive Winter Olympics in History

More money spent than on the sport buildings of all previous Winter Olympics combined

Details: 29 January 2014

The Sochi games will be the most expensive in history at a total cost of more than $50 billion—more money than was spent on the sport buildings for all of the previous Winter Olympics combined, according to the Institute of Modern Russia (IMR).

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Boris Nemtsov: The construction of the Adler–Krasnaya Polyana Highway cost Russia more than the Mars flight program cost the USA

The Winter Olympics in the Sub-Tropics report was presented in Washington, DC

Details: 29 January 2014

On Thursday, in the National Press Club, Russian opposition activists in association with the Institute of Modern Russia presented the English-language publication of the report Winter Olympics in the Sub-Tropics: Corruption and Abuse in Sochi.

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$50 Billion Sochi Games Priciest Winter Olympics Ever

Details: 29 January 2014

The Sochi Winter Games wins a gold medal for costing more than all previous Winter Olympics — combined — weighing in at a staggering $50 billion price tag, according to a report released Thursday by the Institute of Modern Russia, a United States-based think tank.

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Osobnyachestvo

Russia’s Moral Isolation from Europe

Details: 03 February 2014; Alexander Yanov

The Institute of Modern Russia continues its series of articles by Alexander Yanov on the history of Russian nationalism. In this new essay, the author explains how Nicholas I created a powerful and durable myth of osobnyachestvo (Russia’s own unique way) and thus destroyed the idea of the European way for the country.

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IMR Holds Conference on Corruption in the Sochi Olympics

Details: 03 February 2014

On January 30, the Institute of Modern Russia (IMR) held a conference entitled “Olympic Abuses: Russia Before the Sochi Games” at the National Press Club in Washington DC. At this forum, which featured representatives of the Russian opposition, IMR launched its new interactive online guide to corruption in the Sochi Olympics.

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