Solemn ceremony of laying of the first stone to the foundation of the Russian international Olympic university (RIOU) took place. There presented the IOC president Jacque Rogge, the prime-minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, vice-premier Dmitry Kozak, ROC president Alexander Zhukov, the president of «Interros» company Vladimir Potanin…
The general director of Organizing committee «Sochi-2014» Ivan Lynkov, told that about 1000 students can study in RIOU, thus, 205 state-financed places will be given to national Olympic committees. Three faculties will be opened in university: the international sports relations, sports communications and the international management in sports and show business. World Olympic and Paralympic movement experts, known sportsmen-Olympians will act as teachers. The complex of RIOU buildings is constructed in the central part of Sochi. It will include the largest at the Black Sea coast congress-hall with spaciousness over 1 thousand persons, and the Olympic electronic library, which does not have analogues in Russia. First stage of RIOU building — an educational complex — is planned to be finished by the end of 2012, but this year the university plans to start the realisation of Organizing committee programs.
