The claim of russophobia and what’s actually funny about #SochiProblems

... challenging this narrative, and especially so with regard to this particular event, of interest to many around the globe. Russophobia, in their encyclopaedia, stands for a hostile image of Russia stemming from the Cold War and from cultural misunderstandings,... ... a symbolic level. What they see is a coarsely macho and highly extravagant, therefore repugnant but also interesting leader, Putin. Sochi is his show: a temple to Russia’s, thus his greatness. A show that, as Liliya Shevtsova rightly said, was ...