Closing ceremonies today in Sochi marked the end of what will be remembered as the gay Olympics, despite Russian efforts to the contrary. It began last year in a shot heard round the world at members of the LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender) community, with passage of a statute in Russia outlawing propaganda near minors […]
The beating of the members of the Russian punk band, Pussy Riot at the Sochi Winter Olympics, where the band has been protesting the president of Russia, Vladamir Putin, is a civic problem, and not the problem of the Sochi Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said. However, a spokesperson for the IOC […]
In a shocking development in Sochi, the Russian men’s ice hockey team have fallen to the determined Finns. Russia may have opened the scoring, but it was the Finns tight defensive game that allowed them to down the more talented Russian squad. The Russians were the first on the scoreboard when Ilya Kovalchuk put one […]