An international event – in the regime of a state of emergency

Grigory Pasko – journalist

A couple of days ago Russian television in the popular humoristic broadcast «Nasha Rasha» [“Our Russia”, but using a transliteration of the ubiquitous English pronunciation of the country’s name–Trans.] launched a serial about the construction of sporting facilities in the city of Sochi, where, as is known, in the year 2014 is supposed to take place the winter Olympiad. From the first humorous story it can already be seen that the creators of the serial faithfully found the sore spots of this «construction project of the century». One of the spots – the Gastarbeiters, who, in fact, will not be building the facilities.