Ivan Grebeniuk is a senior writer and producer for Current Time, the Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA.
With fighting raging in eastern Ukraine as winter sets in, attention is also shifting to the war's southern front in Zaporizhzhya, where Ukrainian forces are eager to cut Russian forces off from the so-called "land bridge" connecting the Crimean Peninsula to the mainland.
The Soviet authorities pulled out all the stops to host a clean Olympics in 1980, even if it meant resorting to dirty tricks.
