Dreams about Russia

摘要

The opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics on February 7th had panache. A troika of light floated above the stage, colourful domes of St Basil's lifted into the air and a magical dance from "War and Peace" gave way to a study of the Bolshevik revolution drowned in red light. The "Dream about Russia" show, produced by Konstantin Ernst, the head of Russia's Channel One, with the help of American technicians, conjured up a modern, sophisticated European country proud of its culture and its history: "the country I want to live in," tweeted Ksenia Sobchak, a socialite andjournalist.