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EF English First, the world leader in language education, has been appointed as Official Supplier to the Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in the “Language Training Services” category.

Tickets for the Olympic Summer Games of 2012 in the city of London have gone on sale in Russia.

The Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee today revealed the concept of an integrated visual Look of the Games for the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games in 2014.

The opening of eleventh Annual "Sweet Cherry Forest" Open Arts Festival has taken place in Moscow.

Another Partner’s day took place at the Organizing Committee’s office. On this occasion, a delegation from Visa, a Worldwide Olympic Partner, visited the Sochi 2014 staff.

Under the banner of the Sochi 2014 Cultural Olympiad’s Year of the Theatre, a production of the legendary patriotic opera, “Prince Igor”, by Alexander Borodin, has been staged in Moscow for the first time in over 10 years.

The Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, V/O Goznak and Sberbank of Russia has announced the start of the Sochi 2014 Coins Program.

At the launch ceremony for the Sochi 2014 Coin Programme, Irina Slutskaya, two-time World Figure Skating Champion, joined the Sochi 2014 team of ambassadors.

Sochi 2104 General Partner Sberbank and Worldwide Olympic Partner Visa have released a unique credit card featuring an image of the Sochi 2014 Polar Bear Mascot, one of three Sochi official Olympic Winter Games Mascots.

In the House of the Government of the Russian Federation the first meeting of the Supervisory Board of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee under the chairmanship of Alexander Zhukov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, for 2011 took place.

Sochi 2014 has announced its plans for cultural events in the British capital during the Olympic summer Games in 2012.

Representatives from the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, headed up by President and CEO, Dmitry Chernyshenko, have today arrived in London to take part in the 9^th annual SportAccord Convention which will take place over 5 days from 3^rd – 8^th April.

The Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation has announced the start of the annual Russia-wide "Teacher of Sochi 2014" competition.

Dmitry Chernyshenko, Sochi 2014 President and CEO, presented a report on the 58^th meeting of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board.

The first professional trade forum has opened this week in Sochi, entitled "Sochi 2014: Olympic horizons for the Russian catering and cleaning industries".

As part of the first IPC Biathlon and Cross-Country Skiing World Championships held in Russia, the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee has announced a regional Programme of public support for athletes participating in the Paralympic Games.

The first 33 participants in the educational programmes organized for the employees of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee in 2010, have received certificates from the Russian International Olympic University (RIOU).