Book against Olympiad in Sochi presented in Moscow

On February 13, at the Independent Press Centre, representatives of the public held a presentation of the so-called "anti-application" book, prepared on the materials of various ecological and public organizations (Greenpeace of Russia, World Wildlife Fund, Ecological Watch over North Caucasus, International Olympic Committee, etc.).

The anti-application book is the response of the public circles who are against the 2014 Winter Olympiad to be held in the city of Sochi. According to participants of the press conference, the aim of the book is to refute numerous mistakes and deliberate distortions of the facts contained in the application book of Sochi - an applicant for 2014 Winter Olympic Games. "Should the 2014 Winter Olympiad still be held in Sochi, it will claim for its place in the Guinness Book of Records as the one most detrimental for the nature," the anti-application book runs. "The global practice of holding Olympiads has no examples of this sort of destruction of one's natural heritage for the sake of an opportunity to organize Olympic Games. Such examples are just not possible, since they contradict to the principles of the international Olympic movement and the Olympic Charter."

Aleksandra Kondrasheva, CK correspondent