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 Building work on the Media Village for the 2014 Sochi Games began this week in Krasnaya Polyana, with the ceremonial laying of the first stone.

The Sochi 2014 Organising Committee has presented an innovative exhibition on the preparation and hosting of the 2014 Games in Sochi during Russia Day at the World Exposition 2010 in Shanghai this week.

The 9th International Investment Forum “Sochi 2010” was a high-profile event, and proved a vital stage in the successful preparations for the XXI Olympic and XI Paralympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi.

The Interministerial Commission for the Organization and Staging of the XXII Olympic and XI Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi met under the XI World Investment Forum in Sochi. Interministerial Commission, which is part of the Presidential Council for Physical Culture, Sport, the Preparation of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi and the 2013 Universiade in Kazan was led by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak.

Alexander Grigoriev, General Director of the insurance company OSAO Ingosstrakh, and Dmitry Chernyshenko, President and CEO of Sochi 2014, today signed an agreement which sees the insurance company become an Official Partner of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games, taking place in Sochi in 2014.

VOLKSWAGEN Group Rus hands over to the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee the keys of the first 40 vehicles for the preparation of Sochi Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2014.

A new state of the art terminal is now open at the Sochi International Airport. The new facility is one of the key infrastructure developments ahead of the city staging Russia’s first Winter Games in 2014.

A “Memorandum on Ecological and Environmental Partnership as part of the Sochi 2014 Initiative on Sustainable Development” will be signed by the Sochi 2014 Partners and the Sochi City Administration at the IX International Investment Forum in Sochi.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has declared itself as "extremely encouraged" after completing its second Project Review of the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games today.

2014 Olympic Capital named the venue for first ever European camp.

Sochi 2014 officials are among the international group of skating officials taking part in the International Skating Union (ISU) course for referees and stewards in short track speed skating.

Sochi 2014 today underlined its commitment to equality in sport at the second Equal Chances Sport Festival at the Dynamo Palace of Sports in Krylatskoye.

A number of Sochi 2014 Ambassadors, renowned Russian athletes and celebrities, have proposed their ideas for the Sochi 2014 mascot to inspire people across Russia to enter the recently launched mascot competition for the Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

Lessons on Olympic and Paralympic values and the history of Olympic Mascots were today held in schools across the Russia to mark the start of the Sochi 2014 Mascot competition.