The curtain rises Friday on the Winter Olympics in Sochi. But not everyone's overjoyed by the most costly Winter Games ever, five times more expensive than Vancouver four years ago. Will the corruption, mismanagement, displacement of residents and environmental impact all be forgotten when the athletes hit the slopes? Or will these Games come back to haunt Russia's president Putin?
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GUESTS: Elene SERVETTAZ RFI Journalist, Andreas EVAGORA Deputy Head of News, Eurosport, Andrey Kortunov lDirector General, Russian International Affairs Council, Shaun WALKER & Joshua YAFFA France24 Correspondent in Moscow
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