I have every right to talk about the upcoming Olympic Games, since the city that Russian government decided to ruin for it is my home city. When we first heard about it nobody was happy. To hold an event of such a scale in the city where the average salary is $500/month is at least unfair. We knew from the very beginning that they gonna steal from us either way. Later our witty people created a new figure to designate that countless amount of money they had spent for the Games: One Olympiard Rubles.

All this fiesta began with the real estate exultation. Imagine authority representatives knocking at your door and claiming: "We gonna exchange your family house with the garden in Hampton for two-room apartment in Brooklyn, because we are building the Olympic Village here." That's approximately what happened with my friends. And you have no choice. However, I heard a brilliant story from one of the Putin's PR persons, who complained to me that some people divorced to get two apartments instead of one. Bravo! I love my people for this ingenuity. 

Ok. You already lost your home, the next step - you loose your job.
They can close whatever private business you have in the city. They can terminate any near-governmental organizations. They fire native Sochi citizens in a favor of  "specialists from Moscow." So you loose everything you have. But at the same time if you have nothing you can get everything just joining them. 

I have a friend of my girlhood, who got her education in Saint-Petersburg and decided to come back to Sochi to work on the Olympic Games because: "What's better, to be f*ucked for your own money or to f*ck for money?" Sorry for the quote.
That's what citizens think about the 2014th.

Starting from January 7th Sochi is under the state of emergency. You can not freely move around the city if your car doesn't have a special registration which costs (unofficially, as a bribe) about $1000. It's not enough to have a Russian passport to live in Sochi now, you need to have some kind of Sochi registration. People say that police come into the houses to check if you have it. But no one really knows what it is.
The government enhanced the wiretapping. When I talk to my parents via Skype we suddenly loose the connection on such words as: Putin or Imeretinskaya Bukhta (this scary word is the name of the place where the Olympic Village is located.) It's fun! Try this out if you have friends in Sochi.  So parents have no chance to tell me what's really happening in the city.

The closer the Games the more obvious that it's a disaster! Even with the most experienced PR-agency in the world 2014th Olympics can not avoid mockery in press.  This is my favorite article in New York Times on the adventures of the Olympic Torch. 

In the conclusion I want to encourage you to watch this Games. That will be one of the brightest Olympics in history, no doubt.  Mr. Putin wants to impress you, my friends :))