SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said on Thursday that visitors to Russia's Winter Olympics in Sochi would be safe, and that the threat of a militant attack was no greater than in many other cities around the world.
Russian security forces are on high alert after Islamist militants in southern Russia, not far from where the Games are being held, threatened to try to disrupt the event, which officially opens on Friday.
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