Yesterday's CS&W post on the fun fun fun 2014 Sochi Olympics was ahead of its time. By a day.
This morning Interfax, via Reuters, reports "Seven killed in Russia's Dagestan region."
It's true that Derbent, site of the killings in the article, is about 300 miles from Sochi. It's also true that from Derbent, on the Caspian Sea in the east, to Sochi on the Black Sea in the west, the North Caucasus is mired in unrelenting violence.
Last month Time magazine wondered, kind of all wide-eyed-like, Is Sochi Safe Enough for the Olympics? Well, gee, I don't know, what do you think?
Here's "retired KGB Colonel Oleg Nechiporenko, now the chief analyst for Russia's National Anti-Terrorist and Anti-Criminal Fund," from the article:
"Even the idea of holding the Olympics has to be predicated on the end of all violent conflicts in the area, and here we are preparing to hold the Games in what is virtually the front line in our war on terrorism."
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