SOCHI QUOTE OF THE DAY



"We were told [by a Russian Pest Control Contractor]
'[e]ither you take all the dogs
from the Olympic Village or we will shoot them,’ " 

according to Olga Melnikova, who is coordinating the rescue effort on behalf of a charity called Volnoe Delo (roughly, Good Will), which is financed by Oleg V. Deripaska, one of Russia’s billionaire oligarchs.