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The Dozhd TV channel editor Mikhail Zygar speaks to The Associated Press Television at a working studio in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. Dozhd, Russia’s top independent television channel, has faced official criticism over its poll that asked the audience if the Soviets should have surrendered Leningrad to the Nazis to avoid more than a million deaths during the WWII siege. Several cable and satellite providers have removed it from their packages. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Cabling is coiled along a railing before being installed at the Laura Biathlon Center in preparation for the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Olympic Park, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Tony Hicks)