Putin's Olympics

Robert W. Orttung is the Research Director of the Sustainability Collaborative and Associate Research Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University, USA. Sufian N. Zhemukhov is a Senior Research Associate at The George Washington University and Lecturer at The University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA. .

1. Introduction: How Putin’s Political System Led to Olympic Corruption, Military Adventurism and State-Sponsored Doping

2. The 2014 Sochi Olympic Mega-Project and Russia’s Political Economy

3. Political and Civil Society and the Sochi Olympics

4. Security: Fighting Terrorism and Strengthening the Military

5. International Issues: Circassians, the Former Soviet Countries, and the West

6. The Legacy of the Sochi Olympics