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Greetings from the other Sochi! I wanted to show you the Olympic capital
which is impossible to see from windows of a car or hotel
There is a striking contrast between these districts and the Olympic places within some hundred metres of them, eg Fisht stadium where the open ceremony took place
Vladimir Putin, Aliaksandr Lukashenka, their counterparts attended it
People reside here as well. They were watching the ceremony from here and on TV
They expected a different sort of things, eg blocks of flats instead of these huts
where they have lived for 30 years and are likely to continue dwelling here after the Olympics.
At that, Russia's officials blow the trumpets that much has been done for the region and the city itself.
Sometimes Sochi is called the city of concrete and glass
because a great number of buildings have been erected
Fisht Olympic Stadium alone cost $1 bn.
But foreigners won't face the people's problems until they get out their cars
Local residents are communicative, they invite us to film but refuse to tell something in front of cameras.
We will leave soon; they stay here and bring their children up ...
What if the authorities remember them and move to more comfortable places from these huts?
Meanwhile, they have got only imitations of paradise.
There is a wall between them and the kingdom of tourists.
Only one step is to take to find yourself in Wonderland.
Thus, there are two parallel existences: the Olympic one over there and the other, covered by bright cloths.
The people from the both turn out to live in separate cities.