IOC begins fourth inspectorial visit to Sochi.

GENEVA, October 12 (Itar-Tass) - The International Olympic Committee's
coordination commission will on Tuesday start the fourth inspectorial
visit to Sochi, the capital of the 2014 Winter Olympic games. The
commission will work until October 14.
Jean-Claude Killy will head the IOC delegation. Its members will visit
numerous Olympic sport facilities and see how various infrastructure
projects are being implemented. They will listen to the organizers'
reports.
The IOC says in a communique received by Itar-Tass that almost three
years ahead of the Olympics, "the Games project was developing fast while
sport facilities like the Big Sport arena and the Ice Sport Palace were
being built."
The International Olympic Committee said that 'green' standards were
being used in the construction of sport facilities.
The third inspection was held in April this year. The IOC President
Jacques Rogge visited Sochi in April this year. After the trip he told
Itar-Tass that he was very pleased with the progress and speed of Olympic
construction in Sochi.
"I know that there's a very strong organizational committee and a very
powerful support from the highest bodies of power," Jacques Rogge told
Itar-Tass.
Sochi was chosen as the venue for the 22nd Winter Olympic Games and
the 11th Paralympic Winter games at the 119th IOC session in Guatemala on
July 4, 2007. Russia got the right to host the first Winter Olympic games
in its history. The two other rivals who participated in the bid to host
the 2014 Winter Olympics were Austrian Salzburg and South Korean Pyong
Chang.

. Emergency department chief left suicide note before he died.

VLADIVOSTOK, October 12 (Itar-Tass) - Major-General Nikolai
Timoshenko, the head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry department for
the Primorye territory, has been found dead with signs of a gunshot wound
tonight.
"His body was found in a fire-escape on the 7th floor of an apartment
building in Vladivostok in which he lived. A pre-investigation check into
the incident has gotten under way," said Avrora Rimskaya, senior assistant
to the head of the investigative department under the prosecutor's office
of the Primorye territory. She added that Timoshenko had left a suicide
note and that a rifle had been found at the scene of the accident.
Though investigators are working on several theories, suicide is
considered to be the most probable cause of Timoshenko's death.
Rimskaya said that in order to establish all the circumstances of
Timoshenko's death his body would undergo forensic examination and a
ballistic test.
Nikolai Timoshenko, 52, was born in the Bryansk region. From August
1997 to December 27, 2004 he headed rescue teams in Kamchatka and was
later promoted to the head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry department
for the Primorye territory.


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