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Will Islamic Fundamentalists Threaten Russia’s Winter Olympics?

Posted February 22nd, 2011 at 10:39 pm (UTC+0)
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One thousand days from now, television cameras from around the world will focus on Krasnaya Polana, Russia’s new ski resort complex on the western end of the Caucasus Mountains. The ski and snowboard events of the 2014 Winter Olympics will be held on slopes now under construction. Last weekend, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President […]

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