This turned out to be amusing. At the same time as the launch of http://sochi.fbk.info/, the state news agency RIA Novosti launched a cute little campaign called "Counting Together." Users responded enthusiastically; there are plenty of topics and images for the #countingtogether tag on our site. By the way, I forgot to mention in the previous post that the ACF (Anti-Corruption Foundation) is also preparing a report on the Sochi 2014 Olympic money. It will be less entertaining than the website and more academic, but it should still make for interesting reading. We’ll publish it next week. Sports.ru has published a long interview with me—have a look: «***We Could Have Saved a Hell of a Lot of Money." Alexei Navalny on Who Stole What, and How Much, During Olympic Construction ***It’s mostly about the Olympics, but also about Spartak (the Moscow football club), fans, and fights. Here are a few more links to media outlets that wrote about http://sochi.fbk.info/ Russian media: A*. Navalny Calculated the Olympics’ "Real Costs" http://top.rbc.ru/society/27/01/2014/901716.shtml Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation Presented a Project on the Cost of the Olympics — the total came to 1.5 trillion rubles http://www.newsru.com/russia/27jan2014/coshinav.html Navalny Presented an <<Encyclopedia of Spending>> on the 2014 Olympics http://www.forbes.ru/news/250170-navalnyi-predstavil-entsiklopediyu-trat-na-olimpiadu-2014 Foreign media: Russians Debate Sticker Price of Sochi Games ht*tp://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/world/europe/russians-debate-sticker-price-of-sochi-games.html Images 9 and 15 here are excellent: 16 Eye-Popping Examples Of Alleged Corruption At The Sochi Olympics. A leading anti-corruption campaigner points fingers:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/eye-popping-excerpts-from-a-report-alleging-corruption-at Alexei Navalny, Putin’s Biggest Opponent, Takes On Corruption In The Sochi Olympics http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/27/alexei-navalny-sochi-olympics_n_4670442.html Each of you can contribute to our work. ACF gathered information, crunched the numbers, and built the site; now you can help us get the results in front of more people. Just click "retweet":
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