Rollouts at the box office

The Russian authorities tried to buy a documentary from the creators about corruption during the construction of Olympic facilities in Sochi. The producer Simone Baumann offered 600 thousand pounds in order to prevent the show, reports The Daily Telegraph.

According to Baumann, she refused three times to the Russian authorities trying to redeem the tape. The producer explained this by the fact that it seems to many that in modern society you can buy everything. “If you are asking for the price, you are already a buyer,” Baumann noted. “I just said that I was not interested, and left.”

It is known that none of the officials in the film Baumann appears. The film was created using citizens of Germany, Austria and Israel, and Russians did not take part in its financing.

The film tells about the contractor, who was promised to "drown in the blood" in case of refusal to pay a 50 percent rollback, as well as environmental damage from Olympic construction construction. In addition, businessman Valery Morozov, as well as politicians, Boris Nemtsov and Harry Kasparov spoke about illegal actions in the film.

In June,Nemtsov presented the report "Winter Olympiad in Subtropics" , written by him together with Leonid Martynyuk. The Olympics in Sochi became the largest scam in Russian history, the authors say. According to official figures, the budget of the Olympiad broke all world records and amounts to more than 50 billion dollars.

The authors call Sochi-2014 "Personal Project" by Vladimir Putin. This is the most expensive Olympiad in the history of mankind, the report is noted. The expenses for it were more costs for sports facilities of all winter Olympiads combined. And there are already 21 of them. "Comparison of the costs of the Olympic objects in Sochi and in other Olympic capitals shows that Putin prices are two or more and more times higher than the average -worn," the authors of the report write. According to their estimates, the total extent in the project is about 50-60 percent of the budget.

“It is more and more obvious that the Sochi Olympiad is an unprecedented thieves' scam, in which both the representatives of the Putin government and the oligarchs close to it are involved,” the report says. “In fact, the Olympiad highlighted the main vices of the system: arbitrariness, corruption, tyranny, clan, unprofessional, irresponsibility.”

The authors call the choice of place for the Winter Olympiad extremely unsuccessful. "The high seismicity of the Imereti lowland area, a change in the channel of the Mzymt River as a result of barbaric intervention during the construction of the infrastructure of the Olympiad threatens the destruction of multi -millionaire structures," they believe.

Construction has done a grand damage of the ecology of the only subtropical zone in Russia, which has yet to be evaluated. "However, it is already clear that the unique flora and fauna of the Imereti lowland was lost, the Mzymta River is mutilated, the protected forests were subjected to cutting down, and the predatory construction of roads, bridges and tunnels led to irreversible consequences for the gorges of this area," the report said.

Nemtsov’s previous report on the preparation for the Olympics, written in collaboration with Vladimir Milov, was published in April 2009. The authors claimed that the only way to hold the Olympics in Russia is to decentralize it. The existing Olympic plan will destroy Sochi, destroy the resort business, lead to a collapse of urban infrastructure, the report said.