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http://youtu.be/ucZdgqZQi_c Unfortunately, the video does not start from the beginning. On the Echo website (Echo of Moscow, a Russian radio station), there is a full transcript of the broadcast http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/exit/1247672-echo/: A. NAVALNY: If we compare it with the Zenit stadium, then Fisht will probably seem inexpensive, because Zenit is monstrously expensive for us: 35 billion rubles. A. OSIN: Zenit is a special case — more a story of showy excess than anything else. We know that Zenit is ready to build its own separate stadium, without this one, because they’re sick of the whole thing. Because at first they wanted a retractable roof. A. NAVALNY: 35 billion rubles is very expensive showboating. O. ZHURAVLEVA: Speaking of showboating: Alexei Navalny wrote that this facility and that facility drove up costs. Which facilities, in your view, became more expensive purely for appearances — where, in your opinion, did they add unnecessary extras? A. NAVALNY: For appearances, for corruption — above all, for corruption — the railway. It is the most expensive Olympic facility: the combined Adler–Krasnaya Polyana road and rail link. The most expensive facility, costing nearly $9 billion. And it’s an astonishing story. Because the total capacity of all the venues in Krasnaya Polyana itself is about 30,000 people. That is, if they are packed to the limit, with staff and everyone included, it’s 50,000 people. But the capacity of this Adler–Krasnaya Polyana route is 20,000 people per hour. So if a zombie apocalypse starts there, everyone will be able to escape. But apparently we proceed from the assumption that zombie apocalypses are common at ski resorts. From the very beginning, this was an insanely expensive, unnecessary project. http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/exit/1247672-echo/ http://sochi.fbk.info

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