Quote Originally Posted by Leof
12 billions of US dollars will be fritted away for a concrete, steel and "national prestige"!!

Do the Russian old generation, the teachers, the museum workers and millions of others really need the several new concrete objects somewhere in the place where they never could be because of the lack of money?

The goverment and perhaps the citizents of Sochi may think this affair profitable.

I am against this decision. I was disappointed today by the vote of the comission.
No Olympics in history have ever been profitable to any country. Why should Russia be exception?