(ATR) New hotels, green technologies and an even busier events scheduleare among the latest changes to Sochi chronicled by resident Bruce Talley in his newsletter from the Black Sea resort ...
Here are some of the other highlights from his most recent newsletter, which can be found here: Sochi will host the G8 meeting in 2014. Sochi is implementing new technologies as it prepares for Sochi 2014. Sochi is storing snow for the Winter Games in case of weather problems. The Iceberg Skating Palace in Adler will be reconfigured to be a Velodrome.
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