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125575
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2013.
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In the run up to the 2014 winter Olympics, Russian security forces are working on disrupting insurgent groups in advance. Mark Galeotti takes a look at what has already been done and what constitutes the biggest threat to a peaceful games.
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133632
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2014.
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Despite centuries of dire predictions, Russia isn't going anywhere.
RUSSIA, IT IS often said, is a country that is barely able to stumble out of bed and put on matching socks in the morning. In the lead-up to the Winter Olympics in Sochi and continuing during the Games, the U.S. media declared open season on the nation. Americans were told that Russia is a country just about bereft of functioning elevators or toilets. Or even a national food, "except perhaps bad sushi." Its people "hardly know who they are anymore" and its essence is defined by copyright infringement and "all-encompassing corruption." All in all, Russia is "a country that's falling apart," as a New Republic cover story in February put it.
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125950
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2013.
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MOSCOW-In March 2013, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security at the U.S. State Department issued a warning for Americans wanting to come to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia next February: Beware of SORM. The System of Operative-Investigative Measures, or SORM, is Russia's national system of lawful interception of all electronic utterances-an Orwellian network that jeopardizes privacy and the ability to use telecommunications to oppose the government. The U.S. warning ends with a list of "Travel Cyber Security Best Practices," which, apart from the new technology, resembles the briefing instructions for a Cold War-era spy
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