Russia, U.S. Team Up For Sochi Security Vladimir Putin's "Mafia Olympics" KHL Breaks Two Weeks Ahead Of Sochi Lisin In Line For Lokomotiv Buy Technology To Drive Sochi Security Gazprom To Sponsor St. Pete Yacht Club Sochi Tickets May Cost More Than $10K Putin Signs 'World Cup Law' NBA Hopes To Boost Russian Interest Cities Make Final 2020 Olympic Pitches
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Russia, U.S. To Join Efforts For 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Security06 / 19 / 13Security issues at large-scale sporting and public events, including the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, "will become an area of interaction" between Russia and the U.S., according to RIA. Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama "met late on Monday on the sidelines of the G8 sum... |
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Vladimir Putin's "Mafia Olympics"
The sports press is "agog with the revelation" by NFL New England Patriots Owner Robert Kraft that in '05, Russian President Vladimir Putin "stole his Super Bowl ring," according to Dave Zirin of the London GUARDIAN's Talking Sport blog. It is "a pulpy, punchy story," and also "fits a narrative that ...
KHL Breaks Two Weeks Ahead Of Sochi
Kontinental Hockey League VP Vladimir Shalaev said that the league "will halt next season's schedule a full two weeks before the start of the Sochi 2014 Olympics hockey tournament," according to R-SPORT. The 52-game season, which starts on Sept. 4 in Moscow, will break on Jan. 30, and resume on Feb. ...
Lisin In Line For Lokomotiv Buy
Russian Premier League club FC Lokomotiv, currently owned by the state-run Russian Railways, is going to be sold to a private individual, most likely to metals oligarch Vladimir Lisin, the Russian online newspaper gazeta.ru reported on Wednesday. The report, based on the paper’s unnamed source ...
Tags: International Football, Russia
Technology To Drive Sochi Security
Russian officials said that they "will be using cutting-edge technology" to make sure the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi will be "the safest Olympics in history," according to Isachenkov & Venyavsky of the AP. This includes drones, robotic vehicles roaming Olympic venues to search for explosives "an ...
Gazprom To Sponsor St. Pete Yacht Club
Russian gas company Gazprom will sponsor the St. Petersburg Yacht Club during the 2017 America's Cup. Gazprom will launch a new outfit in St. Petersburg called the "Sailing Academy." St. Petersburg Yacht Club will train sportsmen for joining the teams that would take part in the Olympics and other i ...
Tags: Marketing and Sponsorship, Russia
Sochi Tickets May Cost More Than $10K
Attending the Winter Olympics in Sochi could cost you about $10,000 -- "or even more, depending on the kind of package you end up getting," according to Anna Arutunyan of the MOSCOW NEWS. Jet Set Sports, the official partner of the 2014 Sochi Olympics, "has released prices for ticket and h ...
Putin Signs 'World Cup Law'
Russian President Vladimir Putin "signed into law Friday measures giving FIFA powers to stop commerce in large areas of the 2018 World Cup host cities," according to R-SPORT. The "so-called World Cup Law mandates that FIFA or its nominees must give written approval for any trading or advertisin ...
Tags: International Football, Russia
NBA Hopes To Boost Russian Interest
The NBA is betting billionaire Brooklyn Nets Owner Mikhail Prokhorov "can give it an advantage as the league seeks to replicate in Russia its success in China," according to Jake Rudnitsky of BLOOMBERG. NBA Int'l President Heidi Ueberroth said that the NBA hired former IMG Worldwide E ...
Cities Make Final 2020 Olympic Pitches
Bid officials for Istanbul, Tokyo and Madrid "made their pitch" for the 2020 Olympics to the IOC on Thursday as the race enters the final stretch, according to Karolos Grohmann of REUTERS. Istanbul, bidding for the fifth time in the last six editions, "highlighted its location at the crossroads betw ...
Official: Wide Corruption At Sochi Games
Russian officials and businessmen "have stolen billions of dollars during the years of preparations" for the 2014 Sochi Olympics, according to Nataliya Vasilyeva of the AP. Former Russian Deputy Prime Minister-turned-Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov and an associate said in a report released Thursday th ...
