Sochi gambling zone: Authorities in Sochi are applying for permission to turn part of the hotel and residential complex in the Imereti Valley that was built for the Winter Olympics earlier this year into a gambling zone. The idea of a gambling zone has won the support of Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, who met with Kuban governor Alexander Tkachev and Sochi Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov last week. MK