title: The 2014 Sochi Olympics and the 2018 Poisoning of the Skripals
abstract: Abstract This chapter discusses two less significant events selected for the project, the Sochi Olympics and the poisoning of the Skripals. These two events, incidentally, occupy opposite ends on the temporal continuum of the more important international affairs discussed in this book: The Sochi Olympics happened a month before the takeover of Crimea, and the case of the Skripals’ poisoning in the United Kingdom fell on the rich soil of the accumulated anti-Russian and anti-American propaganda i