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Russia
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Olympics Venues Don’t Pay Off in Long Run
Might it be time to scale back the Olympics to a more reasonable level?
2014 Winter Olympics Under Cloud of Anti-LGBTQ Violence
Slava Mogutin: Sochi Olympics can serve as a platform to challenge discrimination, violence and intimidation targeting Russia's LGBTQ community.
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Solidarity Is for White Gays: The Need to Speak Better About Russia
The strangeness of Russian politics is attributable to it being very, well, Russian.
Chaos in the Competition Zone: Olympic Excess From Lake Placid to Sochi
Sochi is not the first Olympic community to be shortchanged, disrupted and abused.
Is Syrian “Peace” Conference Laying the Foundation for War?
The Geneva II “peace” conference has all the indicia of a sham.
The LGBT Movement Takes Aim at Sochi
Dave Zirin: The Russian government's anti-gay scapegoating diverts attention from what appears to be the most corrupt Olympics in history.
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Sochi Olympics
Clay Bennett, “Sochi Olympics”
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Six Big Names That Are Skipping the Russian Olympics
Despite a handful of out and proud athletes who have declared their intentions of competing in the upcoming Sochi Olympic Games, there are an unusually high number of celebrities …
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Climate Protection: The New Insurgency
Faced with the failure of conventional lobbying, the climate protection movement is now turning to mass civil disobedienceu2014but we can take it further still.
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As Olympic Winter Games Near, Russian LGBT Activists Speak Out Against Anti-Gay Laws
Gay rights activists from around the world are using the Olympics to put a spotlight on Russia's new law criminalizing the so-called “promotion of homosexuality.”