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In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 10, 2014, a worker waits for customers at a ticket booth selling amusement rides at Riviera Park in central Sochi, Russia. Vladimir Putin isn’t the only one who has a lot riding on the success of the Sochi Olympics. Local businesses and residents have a lot to gain if these Olympics fulfill Putin’s pledge to turn Sochi and its environs from a summer playground for well-off Russians into a year-round international resort for everyone. But that’s a big “if.” (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Sochi’s merchants ride Putin’s Olympic dream

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

Dr. Ben Carson speaks at the Values Voter Summit in October, 2013. (Doug Wetzstein/special to The Washington Times)

CARSON: Secular progressives can’t keep God out of public life

By Ben S. Carson

FILE - In this photo taken on Friday Feb. 7, 2014 a member of pro-Kremlin Young Guards of United Russia photographs a monument to a Nazi soldier outside a building, where the CNN Moscow office is located, as a protest against the CNN poll on the most ugly monuments in the world, which included the WWII monument in Brest, Belarus. U.S. television network CNN caused a firestorm when it included a war monument in Brest, a city in the former Soviet republic of Belarus, in an article on the “world’s ugliest monuments” published Jan. 24. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file)

How Russia hits back at slights over WWII victory

By Lynn Berry - Associated Press

Washington Capitals right wing Alex Ovechkin reacts as he comes to the bench after a collision with Winnipeg Jets left wing Andrew Ladd during the third period of an NHL hockey game, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Washington. Ovechkin returned to the game, which the Capitals won 4-2. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Russians: ‘We’ll take every game as the last one’

By JIM LITKE - Associated Press

Evgeni Plushenko of Russia competes in the men's team free skate figure skating competition at the Iceberg Skating Palace during the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip )

Russia wins team figure skating, 1st gold of Sochi

By BARRY WILNER - Associated Press

In this first in a sequence of four images, Russian President Vladimir Putin waits in the presidential lounge to be introduced at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. Behind him, a TV screen shows four of the Olympic rings opening at the start of the ceremony, while the fifth ring remains closed. (AP Photo/David Goldman, Pool)

Photos: Putin probably missed Olympic rings glitch

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, talks with International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, left, and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, right, in the presidential lounge following the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/David Goldman, Pool)

SOCHI SCENE: Bach jabs at Bush

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Russian President Vladimir Putin formally opens Winter Games in Black Sea resort city of Sochi

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The Olympic Cauldron is lit during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Olympic greats Tretiak, Rodnina light cauldron

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Marie Dorin-Habert of France skis past mountain tops during a Biathlon training session at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

New Olympics, new things to see in Sochi

By TIM DAHLBERG - Associated Press

Afghan president heads to Sochi

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Vladimir Putin formally opens Sochi Winter Games

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Elina Suyundikova, a dancer in the 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, watches the sunset along the Black Sea while returning from a rehearsal on the eve of the performance and the games' official opening at Fisht Olympic Stadium, seen in the background, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Russia kicks off Sochi Games with hope and hubris

By ANGELA CHARLTON and NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

The sun sets over the Olympic Park before the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Putin: Sports should be focus of Sochi Olympics

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FILE - In this 2009 photo provided by the family, Renee Thomas holds Nikolai at an orphanage in Kursk, Russia. On Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, Thomas went on television in Russia with an emotional appeal for an exception to be made to Russia's year-old ban on adoptions by Americans. She and her husband adopted a boy from Russia in 2008 and refuse to give up long-standing efforts to also adopt Nikolai, their son's biological brother. (AP Photo)

On Russian TV, US mom urges waiver to adoption ban

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

Irina Rodnina and Vladislav Tretyak light the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, Pool)

Sochi Olympics: Opening ceremony evokes Russian pride before torch is lit

By Angela Charlton and Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

People buys some of Mukhmunad Ashabokova's tangerines off of her cart at the Abkhazian border Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, near Sochi, Russia. Most days in the tangerine season, she rolls her squat cart loaded down with the fruit across the bridge over Psou River from her garden about two miles inside Abkhazia. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Along the border near Sochi, a ring of steel rises

By STEVEN R. HURST - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a wall while visiting the Coastal Cluster Olympic Village ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

SOCHI SCENE: Meeting Putin

By The Associated Press - Associated Press