Before the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 there was an intense international discussion on the wanting Russian record on democracy and human rights and the appropriateness of organizing such mega-events in authoritarian settings. These kinds of discussions had a familiar ring to them; similar voices were heard before the Beijing Summer Olympics in 2008. However, what was notable in the scholarly discussion after the Beijing Olympics was a lack of substantiated follow-up with regard to political and social consequences of the Games. Once the Olympic Games were launched, the sports events themselves took over the public limelight. Further to this, media logics seem to dictate that once any Games are over, critical discussions are over and done with, and the attention is gradually shifted to the next mega-event to follow, in the Sochi case the Summer Games in Rio in 2016 and the FIFA World Cup in football which will be arranged in several locations in Russia in 2018. In the case of the Sochi Games, the fading from attention was exacerbated by the dramatic events which unfolded around Ukraine and the Russian role in them which came to dominate newscasts from a time when the Games had barely even been concluded.With regard to Sochi, as for all sites of major sports events, continued critical attention is called for to assess political developments on the local, regional and central levels of the state even after the conclusion of the Games. It is essential to try to gauge the extent to which predicted problems materialized, what happened afterwards, and what have been the more long-term consequences for the local population and also in a wider regional perspective.Post-Olympic Sochi offers an interesting post of observation for scrutinizing local effects of meso-level policies and mega-event arrangements.The need for a thorough follow-up to what actually befalls the host city after any Olympics can be argued for many reasons. When such a mega-event is organized in the setting of an authoritarian political system the need is exacerbated even further, and it could indeed be argued to be a duty on the part of critically minded scholars to continue to engage with the matters that have been of concern before the Olympics. Simple logic says that if these matters were of interest before the Olympics they should be so even after the circus has left the town.In this chapter, we will turn our attention to three areas that before the Sochi Olympics were

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