In the News Share this image  Dogster Commentary: Greed and
Power Are Behind the Stray Dog Extermination in Sochi  Not all
Russians are to blame for this mess; some have gone to great
lengths to rescue dogs.   |  Feb 7th 2014  |   8 Contributions
After I wrote up the first news item about Sochi's campaign to
hunt and kill the city's stray dogs in preparation for the
Winter Olympics, one of the comments really stuck in my craw. A
woman named Elaine said: "I guess i will add the Russians to my
list of despicable people of the human race. China being 1st." I
understood the anger and disgust. There is nothing to breed
loathing and anger like having to know a story so intimately
that you can summarize it in 500 words.  But no matter how
disgusted I felt with the Sochi situation, it never became a
reason to despise Russians as such. It's not a story about how
debased Russian culture is; it's a story about the brutality of
greed and unchecked power. Even here in the United States, when
the Olympics come to town, it