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ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH
Russia will host the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in a coastal cluster and a mountain cluster of venues linked by a new 48-kilometer high speed railway and road. Olympic preparations have caused landslides in two locations as well as destruction of drinking water wells and hazardous levels of dust in Akhshtyr. Some residents peacefully protesting a proposed power plant in Kudepsta have been arrested.