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A number of Sochi 2014 Ambassadors, renowned Russian athletes and celebrities, have proposed their ideas for the Sochi 2014 mascot to inspire people across Russia to enter the recently launched mascot competition for the Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

Lessons on Olympic and Paralympic values and the history of Olympic Mascots were today held in schools across the Russia to mark the start of the Sochi 2014 Mascot competition.

On 1 September 2010, the Sochi 2014 Organising Committee will open a Russian national competition to design a Mascot for the 2014 Sochi Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee and the Publishing and Trading Centre “Marka” have today signed a licensing agreement which grants “Marka” the right to issue post and philatelic items with the Sochi 2014 emblem.

The Sochi 2014 Organising Committee has announced the start of the Russian national "Olympic Teacher" competition 2010.

Theodore Oben, head of the Outreach Unit at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), today praised Sochi 2014’s leadership in environmental protection, highlighting that he has “a strong feeling that Sochi 2014 will be successful” in environmental protection.