Voice of America: Russia's Putin Sacks Olympic Official Over Delays

Voice of America Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries

Russia's Putin Sacks Olympic Official Over Delays Feb 7th 2013, 15:51 Vladimir Putin fired a top Russian Olympic official on Thursday after publicly ridiculing him on a visit to half-finished sports complexes planned for a winter Olympics dogged by reports of corruption and construction delays.   The humiliation of Akhmed Bilalov, 42, stamped President Putin's authority over the 2014 Sochi Games and underlined the importance he attaches to a global event he hopes will show how far Russia has come since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.   In a ... Media files: FE7F1C63-92A2-4A75-9D39-5EAA7C5EAA08_cx0_cy13_cw99_w800_r1.jpg?nocache=1 (image/jpeg, 0 MB)

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