Sochi 2014 starts between extreme measures of security

Today with an act of 150 minutes, in the newly built Stadium Fisht, will be held the Sochi-2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony. It is still unknown who will light the caldron and the flame ins going to Arrive to  the Olympic Fisht Stadium, after its tour of 65,000 kilometers, that took it from space to the bottom of the Lake Baikal.

“The ceremony will be one of the most impressive and Visual of the history,” declared the President of the Organizing Committee of the games, Dmitri Chernychenko.

The 40,000 spectators in the Olympic Stadium will see the ceremony  and will give tribute to eight moments in the history of Russian culture. The Red Army choirs will be present, while Russian media revealed  the participation of pianist Denis Matsojev, the violinist Jori Bachmet and the favorite group of Putin, Lube.

The seats will be, themselves, a show. Vladimir Putin will host 44 international dignitaries, including the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, although there will be notable absences, many in protest at Russian policy in matters such as human rights and the law on homosexual ‘propaganda’.

On the other hand the ceremony will have extreme security measures to prevent attacks of the North Caucasus Islamic groups. Sochi will have 37,000 members of the security forces. Also all telephone calls and connections to the internet in Sochi will be closely monitored by the powerful Federal Security Service (FSB, ex-KGB).