The Sochi Olympics is, it would seem, never far from controversy.  The recent set of scandalizing posters advertising housing in the Olympic complex might have lead one to imagine that Putin et al are using Berlin 1936 as the blue print for their own Olympic adventure.  Pictures of looming Aryans enjoying the snow-capped vistas provoked outrage as critics saw an echo of the imagery found in the work of Nazi-aestheticist Leni Riefenstahl.  Aside from its homage to the Master Race, Window On Eurasia’s Paul Goble reveals another major gripe to be held with the preparation for the Games:

For what Moscow plans to spend on the 2014 Sochi Olympics, activists say, the central government could open and support the operations of kindergartens for all preschoolers in Russia, the latest indication of the way in which in straightened economic times, Russians are registering their objections to government policies.