"YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS ARE AS DAZZLING AS YOUR SUBJECTS"

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

ONE MONTH TO GO TILL THE SOCHI OLYMPICS

LOCATION, LOCATION, 
LOCATION, AND 
SECURITY, SECURITY, 
SECURITY 


INTERIOR OF THE MOTHER RUSSIA 
MEMORIAL TO THE 
BATTLE OF STALINGRAD 
VOLGOGRAD, RUSSIA 

The world has had a few years to get used to the fact that Russia's first Winter Olympics was to be held in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, better known for its beaches than its ice skating. It had also not gone unnoticed that Sochi was uncomfortably close to the restive North Caucasus region. 

Just over a week ago, on December 29 and 30, suicide bombers struck not at Sochi but several hundred miles away at the presumably easier target of Volgograd, devastated in the pivotal World War II Battle of Stalingrad. Terror struck first a train station and then a bus, in the run-up and on the road to the Olympics. 

Read more here and here 

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