World News Insights
1-3 Minute Gist
Search, personalize, or simply browse. Follow the world around you from gist and context to insights.
Who we are | Our Credo | Ways of using Lyrarc | FAQ | Send Feedback | First Letter From the Editor
Sign up. It's free and easy to use
Create an account
to personalize your feed of articles and topics.
All Topics Article
Russia spent $50 billion on the Sochi Olympics. It might actually have been worth it.
Keywords: Sochi Olympics, Russia Sochi,
David Filipov of the Washington Post visits Sochi, site of the 2014 WInter Olympics, three years later to find a city that is bustling even in winter. Before the Olympics Sochi was popular destination for tourists. In 2016 and in 2017 about 6.5 million people visited this city on the Black Sea coastline. With the new facilities built during the Olympics Sochi has become a year round destination. Russian tourists visiting Turkey and Egypt find Sochi an attractive alternative after the road and rail links built into the mountains. Officially sponsored events are giving Sochi more popularity. During the Olympics the estimated $50 billion cost of building facilities was criticized for delays and cost overruns. The better management during the post-Olympic period is showing Sochi has a future as a popular tourist destination.
Sochi, Russia- one year after the Winter Olympics of 2014
02/09/2015
The lower prices at Sochi as a result of the recession in Russia are a plus for college students and others who can now afford to stay here on vacation. Not enough tourists means the rail line to the ski resorts runs on a limited schedule. Young people see this as a visit to their little corner of Europe, arousing patriotic feelings.
Grouped Articles
One Year On, Sochi Suffers the Post-Olympic Blues
Wall Street Journal 02/09/2015
Russia spent $50 billion on the Sochi Olympics. It might actually have been worth it.
Washington Post 11/15/2017
6 cities that rejected the Olympics | DW | 14.11.2018
DW.COM 11/14/2018
Russia's Sochi Olympics and development of the city and region of Krasnaya Polyana after 2014
02/22/2014
Grouped Articles
When the Olympics end, what will become of Sochi? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 02/22/2014
One Year On, Sochi Suffers the Post-Olympic Blues
Wall Street Journal 02/09/2015
Russia spent $50 billion on the Sochi Olympics. It might actually have been worth it.
Washington Post 11/15/2017
6 cities that rejected the Olympics | DW | 14.11.2018
DW.COM 11/14/2018
The 2014 Sochi Olympics- cost issues for the $47 billion spent on the Winter Olympics in Russia
11/05/2013
Grouped Articles
Putin's Olympian Construction Zone
Wall Street Journal 11/05/2013
When the Olympics end, what will become of Sochi? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 02/22/2014
Russia spent $50 billion on the Sochi Olympics. It might actually have been worth it.
Washington Post 11/15/2017
6 cities that rejected the Olympics | DW | 14.11.2018
DW.COM 11/14/2018
Putin and the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia
11/05/2013
Grouped Articles
New York Times 01/22/2014
Putin's Olympian Construction Zone
Wall Street Journal 11/05/2013
For Sochi Games, Russians Trade Dour for Dazzling
New York Times 02/08/2014
When the Olympics end, what will become of Sochi? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 02/22/2014
One Year On, Sochi Suffers the Post-Olympic Blues
Wall Street Journal 02/09/2015
Russia spent $50 billion on the Sochi Olympics. It might actually have been worth it.
Washington Post 11/15/2017
We took a different way to help millions around the world build educated informed mindsets that affects and shapes their lives. For a future that is open, global and digital, with everyone having access to high quality information. We believe in the renewal of America, renewal of Europe, the renewal of India, the rest of Asia, Latin America and Africa. The renewal of our supply chains, health, education, infrastructure, as we rebuild our countries after the pandemic. Literacy and knowledge we believe cannot thrive and grow in a world of web bots, web crawlers, or AI. This requires human curiosity, human learning, and human imagination. We take as inspiration the saying- “One has to be free, and as broad as sky. One has to have a mind that is crystal clear, only then can truth shine in it.” Every contribution whether big or small is precious- in this crisis and ahead.
Support Lyrarc from as small as $1
Terms and Conditions | Copyright Policy | Privacy Policy | Contact Us
