Sochi

The brazen land grab of Crimea was planned while Putin was enjoying the limelight of the Sochi Winter Olympics.

“Vlad was just one of the little wild dogs of Sochi,” Gonick says.

Just a few months ago, she was in top condition at Sochi, winning a bronze medal in the first ever Paralympic snowboarding event.

“They used Sochi as a test case for a more intrusive system,” Galeotti said.

Russian communications monitoring became even more intrusive earlier this year during the Sochi winter games.

In speaking to inferiors there are three particles used for 'you'; vare, vonore, and sochi.

Iai means 'ho there' with very low people; e.g., iai sochi ga motta mono va nani zo?