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		<title>Leopard, Polar Bear, and Zaya are Sochi 2014 Mascots!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so, there will be three! official mascots:
1. The Leopard (28%)
2. The Polar Bear (18%)
3. Zaya the dore hare (16%)
4. The Dolphin (12%)
5. The Bullfinch (10%)
6. The Little Sun (8%)
7. The Matryoshka dolls
8. Brown Bear
Percents are the poll results they announced.

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		<title>Sunlight and Snowflake are mascots for the 2014 Paralympic Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian Paralympians chose Sunlight and Snowflake as mascots for the 2014 Paralympic Games. The poll for the Olympic mascot is going on right now.

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		<title>Public 2014 Olympics mascot contest continues &#8211; you can participate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I should&#8217;ve blogged about it a couple of months ago, but I was traveling, and changing to a new workplace.
There&#8217;s an ongoing public mascot contest organized by Sochi 2014 Olympic committee. It started on September 5th, and a month later they announced they are accepting international entries.
Their idea, as they announced it, is to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sochi-Abkhazia train services resume</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 26th Russia and Abkhazia resumed passenger train services between Adler, Sochi and Gagra, Abkhazia. The train travels twice a day &#8211; at 7:05 AM from Adler&#8217;s train station, and back at 17:57 (5:57 PM) back the same day. The over two hours trip includes two ten minutes stops for passport control on both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Sochi hotels to recevive stars</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this week&#8217;s government&#8217;s decision all tourism infrastructure in Russia &#8211; that includes hotels, ski resorts, beaches, and other tourist and recreational venues &#8211; will go through mandatory classification. And it will all start with hotels in Sochi.
Hotels in Russia are not in a hurry to get classified, as the procedure can be expensive, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkish Airlines will fly to Sochi 3 times a week</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkish Airlines announced launch of flights from Istanbul to Sochi this summer season. Flights to Sochi will be three times a week.
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		<title>English, everyone must learn</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry, this picture is probably a little aggressive. But that&#8217;s what jumped into my head when I read new Sochi mayor&#8217;s initiative: all waiters and cab drivers will have to learn English or loose their jobs.
I recognize that it&#8217;s extremely important for services to be available in English by the time Olympics hits the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beaches and parks declared no smoking zones</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sochi administartion introduced ban on smoking in public areas &#8211; all educational, healthcare, and cultural establishments are declared smoke-free zones. Smoking is no longer allowed in parks and beaches as well.
Smiking is allowed in open-air cafés, though.
There already are similar federal laws in effect in Russia limiting smoking in some areas. But they are seldom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please rate my posts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve installed ratings plug-in on this site, which adds 5-star rating widget to the end of each article. It available when you open an article. Please rate my posts, this will help me understand what I should write about and how. Thanks!
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		<title>Sochi quick fact: Population (2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[demographics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Population of Sochi has increased during this last year; around 411 000 people live in Sochi today.
Source: Sochi mayor&#8217;s report from December 21, 2009
Other facts about Sochi »
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