The document discusses how the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Sochi and the World Cup in Brazil were portrayed on Russian television as rituals that praise the past through national mythology rather than being interpreted as rituals that praise modernity like in other countries. It argues that Russian television producers used the large sporting events to construct myths that idealized the past instead of viewing them as symbols of a modern nation.

1. These Rituals praise the Past
Anna Novikova, prof. HSE

2. } The show opening and closing of the Olympic
Games in Sochi and the World Cup in Brazil
} 165 subjects of evening edition of "Time",
"The First Channel". (selection to search for
words "World Cup in Brazil.“)
(General Search26/11/2009 – 18/09/2015)
} 12 stories about Brazil

3. } Arne Martin Klausen (1999) Olimpic Gamesas Performance and
Public Event The Caseofthe XVII Winter Olympic Gamesin Norway.
} Richard Giulianott (2015)«Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of
Sport»
} Vsevolod Meyerhold ( 2014) On Theatre
} JE Bowlt (1976) Russian art of the avant-garde: theory and criticism,
1902-1934
} J. Meyrowitz (2005) The Rise of Glocality: New Senses of Place and
Identity in the Global Village
} D.Dayan, E. Katz (1992). Media events: the live broadcasting of
history.

10. } World Cup in Brazil is not "ritual praise of our
time." It is a ritual of praise archaic. Which
could become modern.

13. } Producers of the First Russian TV channel
used for the construction of sports events of
national mythology based on idealization of
the past.
} A sports show in other countries tend to be
interpreted through the construction of the
myth of modernity.