Word: sochi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...denial about the cause. Two aircraft left Tuesday night from the same Moscow airport, and dropped off the radar screens within 60 seconds of each other. At 10.53 p.m. traffic controllers lost contact with Flight 1047, a Siberia Airlines flight from Moscow to the Black Sea resort of Sochi. A minute later, Volga-Aviaexpress Flight 1303 from Moscow to Volgograd disappeared. The wreckage of the planes was quickly found. In all, at least 90 people had been killed. The massive, near-simultaneous nature of the catastrophes was only the first clue that this was terrorism. Villagers in the Tula region...
...Russian home. Though 40% of the Russian population "cannot afford toothpaste," according to the Moscow daily Izvestia, everyone seems to be playing or watching tennis. They read that Kournikova is now worth at least $30 million. They hear of Sharapova, risen from poverty in the Black Sea town of Sochi and now happily settled in the U.S. "For the poor in Russia," says Moscow coach Vladimir Altukhov, "tennis now stands for [what] the NBA does for the poor blacks in the U.S.: their only chance of making it." Zhbanova is one of those with a slim chance of making...
...join the anti-terrorist coalition as well. A ranking diplomatic source told TIME that Putin made the pledge on Saturday in an hour-long telephone conversation with Bush while the Russian President was taking a break from a six-hour cabinet meeting at his Black Sea dacha at Sochi...
Perhaps that's why Putin had so little to say as the magnitude of the disaster unfolded. He left for his summer-vacation retreat in Sochi on the day of the accident and sent no messages of condolence to the fleet or to the furious families of the missing men. His officially published schedule told of phone conversations with foreign leaders but made no mention of briefings, consultations or expressions of concern about the Kursk. On Wednesday, dressed casually and looking tanned, he met with visiting academics to discuss at relaxed length problems of science, research and the brain drain...
...does Boris Yeltsin have to worry about assassination, on top of everything else? "Not really, because if you wanted to kill Yeltsin you'd have to go to Sochi, the Black Sea resort to which he's retreated," says Zharakovich. "And once there you'd be distracted by all the other attractions -- it's like Florida...