From a political linguistics perspective, the preparations for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games offer insight into the Kremlin-orchestrated Olympic discourse, especially the idea of sovereignty—constitutive for Putin's rule—and reveal challenges to this discourse from outside and inside the ruling group.
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