The Second World Junior Compatriot Games have begun is Sochi.
About 600 athletes from 45 countries - Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Lithuania, Estonia, Luxembourg, Slovenia, the USA, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Syria, Ukraine, etc. - will for 6 days be competing in swimming, streetball, mini-football, ping pong and chess.
"The children that get to know each other through sports don't need any interpreters. For us the main goal is not the sports results, but what they will learn of one another, about our country," said Irina Rodnina, a triple Olympic champion figure skater.
The declared aims of the Games are to strengthen and develop the links between young people of Russian origin with Russia, and to enhance and promote the positions of the Russian language abroad.
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