Volodymyr Runets is a correspondent for Current Time TV, the Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA.
The Soviet authorities pulled out all the stops to host a clean Olympics in 1980, even if it meant resorting to dirty tricks.
Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian leader who is now an ardent opponent of Ukraine's president, said corruption had inflicted far greater damage on Ukraine than Russia had.
