Photostream : Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visits the Roza Khutor ski resort in Sochi

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, and Interros Investment Company President Vladimir Potanin, left, ride in a mountain lift to visit the Roza Khutor ski resort that is under construction for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, near the Black Sea resort of Sochi, southern Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. The preparation for the Olympics in Sochi, has “actually entered its final phase,” Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday at the first working meeting on the heritage of the 2014 Olympic Games, ITAR-TASS reported. The president drew attention of the participants in the meeting held at the Roza Khutor ski resort to the fact that slightly more than three years remain before the opening of the Olympics. “This project is super large-scale for our country. Not because any Olympics is a very big project, not because we have not the easiest conditions here. The project is ambitious - in terms of the construction volumes and financing, as well as the organisational complexity,” Medvedev explained. (AP Photo / RIA Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, visits a ski resort Roza Khutor that is under construction for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, near the Black Sea resort of Sochi, southern Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev looks on as he visits the ski resort of Roza Khutor that is under construction for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, near the Black Sea resort of Sochi, southern Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service, pool)

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, second left, and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, left, ride in a mountain lift to visit Roza Khutor ski resort that is under construction for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, near the Black Sea resort of Sochi, southern Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, center, flanked by Interros Investment Company President Vladimir Potanin, left, and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, right, visits the Roza Khutor ski resort that is under construction for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, near the Black Sea resort of Sochi, southern Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)