Life Inside a Potemkin Village
“Everything’s for fucking sale.”
Officials in Sochi introduce a new Olympic discipline.
The Olympic Park has sprouted up on a drained wetland that until a few years ago was a state farm.
Fleecing tourists is the name of the game.
Putin’s love of Sochi is the sole reason that Russia’s only subtropical city will host the Winter Olympics.
Sochi was just a provincial backwater when I first visited.
Secret Sochi has no stories yet.