Putin, Cameron Talk Sochi; FBI Chief Preparing for Olympics

Russian and British security services will cooperate in the build-up to the Winter Olympics in Sochi next year, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday.

Cameron said at a conference after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin the UK will be providing "limited" support to ensure security at the Olympic Games in the Russian Black Sea resort.

The UK premier said more than 50 British companies are participating in the Sochi Olympics construction projects. "We both want the Sochi Games to be a safe and secure Game," he said.

Putin and Cameron are later expected to go on a helicopter tour over the venues under construction for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

"If there is time, I would like to show you how we are preparing for the 2014 Olympic Games," Putin said at the start of his meeting with Cameron.

"I recall how you kindly accompanied me to a judo match in London, and today I would like to respond in kind by showing you the venues for the 2014 Olympics," Putin said.

British Prime Minister David Cameron is in Russia for talks with President Putin about a range of issues, although it is expected that Syria, which has been one particular area of policy divergence between the two countries, is likely to top the agenda.

Published by exclusive arrangement with RIA Novosti, host news agency of Sochi 2014.

FBI Director Talks Sochi

Around the Rings has learned FBI Director Robert Mueller was in Georgia to discuss preparations for the Sochi Olympics.

Jeremy Richart, a press attaché for the U.S. Embassy in in Tbilisi said in an email that Mueller was in Georgia "to discuss several things, and the Sochi Olympics was among them."

He met with officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Justice as well as with the Prime Minister, Bidzina Ivanishvili.

The FBI will have a presence during the upcoming Games and his trip was to help coordinate those efforts.

"His trip was part of a larger, regional trip that included Russia," Richart said.

Written by Ed Hula III.

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