Sochi environmental havoc

SOCHI, Russia - Waste from the construction of facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympics lies where it has been illegally dumped in Sochi, a Black Sea resort in Russia, on Dec. 5, 2013. Visible in back are the Black Sea and Olympic Park.

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