TODAY: Clashes during IOC visit in Sochi over housing. Military parade planned for May 9. Russia firm on support for Georgia’s breakaway regions. The Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church. Practice for a May 9 parade of Russian military hardware on Moscow’s Red Square, the first since the Soviet era, included over “100 tanks, rocket launchers and armored vehicles, flanked by 8,000 soldiers.” A retired colonel involved in the first parade in 1945 commented, “When you are dealing with other countries, you should not look weak.” A new television movie about Chechnya “has given viewers one more reason to believe Russia is under siege by foreign enemies with intricate conspiracies aimed at destroying their country.” Holodomor: “an anniversary that Russia will not commemorate.” Despite calls by Western powers, Russia will not rescind its plan to strengthen ties with the breakaway Georgian regions, saying wants to promote their economic development, not annex them.