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The day before
88 days left to the Winter Olympics in Sochi 
There are strange rapprochement, as the classic warned. To get to Sochi from Adler Airport, for starters, it is necessary to move the river.
The river is called Herota.
Stress, they say, on the second syllable - but a day for a day does not have to.
The traffic jams here are quite Moscow, and the time for the introductory excursion in bulk. The impressive taxi driver, impressions of pre -Olympic life in bulk, leads a tour, and very soon I find myself immersed in context by the very nostrils.
We are going, for example, along the railway stretched to the Olympics from the airport to the city. Why is it not on it, cheaper and without traffic jams? And the trains were canceled because. Unprofitable. There is no one to ride. And after the Olympiad there will be no one, and operation is more expensive for itself, so this railway is simply dismantled.
And it’s not a pity: she has already done her job! For a certain St. Petersburg company and the tsarist estimate have long been built this railway has been built.
But (by the way, about the estimate) and the railway station in Adler. Handsome of glass and concrete in the size of an Amsterdam port. You ask: why in Adler, on a dead end branch with obviously poor transport prospects, such splendor? Or do not ask?
Well, yes, why is it incomprehensible?
More - no less!
$ 56 billion.
This is a general estimate of the event, and in a sense, the 2014 Olympics has already taken place, because this money is no longer there. The remains are mastered.
The city is transformed and dug. The fighting is going day and night: we must have time! You go out to the balcony of the four-star “Park Hotel”-and instead of the coastline you look at the construction site with the appropriate sound, by no means surf. "
They are waiting for the Olympiad as in some Oklahoma awaited an prohibitive tornado: it will be unforgettable, but scary
“The Internet falls at the first opportunity. According to the number made generously, but without brains, it went through some completely sleeping manins. Everywhere there are signs with diminutive and lactating suffixes: a towel for your pens ... a night ... hot water.
There were no water in the city recently, they say, three days - neither hot nor cold. My crane flowed barely warm. But I, on the other hand, are not an Olympic commission, why wash me?
And in general - everything is for the front, everything is for victory, and people will beg. Elevators in offices in the evenings are disconnected: Electricity savings. When the snow was frozen in the red clearing, Adler was cut down a couple of times. Fine!
They are waiting for the Olympics as in some Oklahoma awaited an prohibitive tornado: it will be unforgettable, but scary.
In the meantime, for now I am walking along the sunny half -desert embankment: +20 in early November, what else to wish for a person?
But here you have Olympic geopolitics: a children's attraction, a military, not ours, with the inscription on the wing of USAIRFORFORCE ... How is this propaganda of American imperialism combined with Shevchenko and Kiselev on federal channels?
And so. What are you as small?
Pre-Alim “Detail”, discharge and friendship-fraindshaft on February 23 inclusive. And we will put out the Olympic lighter, close the budget, the Pindosiks will go, the glory of those Lord, the airplane also dismantle it, he is not doing here.
Of the brand new, from a needle, a cafe, a high-quality Western music sounds instead of the usual pop music, everywhere filled in English, the scoop “pearl” was renamed the Grand-Hotel, on the glorious beach of the Kinotavra, on the luxurious restaurant’s luxurious lights-portraits of Julia Roberts and Sean Connery, and only Sochi coma are lying on the sullen As they were lying before financing, and the fishermen stick out on the molls.
The Olympiad with the Olympiad, theft of theft and Paphos Paphos, but the sun still rises from Adler’s side, and the body of the drunk in Sunday non-existence is habitually spreading on the attractions site as a reminder of the unchanging course of things.
Photo: Thomas Peter/Reuters