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 Sochi has been awarded the honor of hosting the 40th European Olympic Committees (EOC) General Assembly in 2011. 

Dmitry Chernyshenko, Sochi 2014 President and CEO, has announced that a record number of National Olympic Committees (NOCs) are set to travel to the Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The full completion of the Olympic slopes in the key Alpine resort was one of the highlights of a report presented by a Russian delegation providing an update on their preparations for hosting the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi to the 39^th General Assembly of the European Olympic Committees.

The latest annual meeting of the Public Council for Preparation for the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games has been held this week in Sochi.

The latest annual meeting of the Public Council for Preparation for the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games has been held this week in Sochi.

During the “Challenges of the Economy of the Future” plenary session at the IV Transport of Russia International Forum, the President and CEO of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, Dmitry Chernyshenko, underlined that transport infrastructure is one of the key factors in hosting a successful 2014 Games in Sochi.

During the “Challenges of the Economy of the Future” plenary session at the IV Transport of Russia International Forum, the President and CEO of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, Dmitry Chernyshenko, underlined that transport infrastructure is one of the key factors in hosting a successful 2014 Games in Sochi.

The Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee and the Russian International Olympic University (RIOU) have held a roundtable discussion on the topic of “international experience in implementing programs to raise public awareness of the Paralympic Games and their values.”

In the week when the Sochi 2014 Organising Committee presented their Ecological Program to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Global Forum for Sport and Environment, the Organising Committee has highlighted the positive progress being made in the effort to project and enhance the unique natural environment of Sochi and the Krasnodar region during the preparations for the Games.

International experts have applauded the success of the Russian Black Sea city of Sochi in preparation for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee has supported an initiative by scholars of the Russian Geographical Society to publish atlases of medicinal and food plants that originate in the region of Sochi.

In a presentation at the fifth annual Sports Event Management Conference held at Twickenham Rugby Stadium in London, Sochi 2014Organizing Committee CEO & President, DmitryChernyshenko today highlighted the array of top sports destinations that is being created by his country’s hosting of the Games in 2014.

JSC RZD has today announced that the Adler to Sochi Airport railway link is to go live in December 2011 – almost a year earlier than its initial schedule.

The second annual Global Sport Industry Congress is taking place today in London – the host city of the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.

A group of Sochi 2014 volunteers dedicated their International Black Sea Day to cleaning Sochi’s beaches.