ROSA KHUTOR, Russia (Reuters) - Behind the shimmering $50 billion facade of the Winter Olympics, beneath the shiny wrapping of Vladimir Putin's gargantuan gift to the world, lie traces of a Russia that never changes: sometimes frustrating, often bizarre and always strange and exciting.
Winston Churchill famously called Russia "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma", and the country's contradictions and incongruities were on full view in Sochi.
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