A postcard from Russia! The theme of the postcard is the 22nd Winter Olympic Games. The event will be held from 6 to 23 February 2014, in Sochi, Russia. Sochi was elected as the city to hold the games in 2007. And the stamp shows one of the mascots of the Olympic Games. It is actually a polar bear. The other two mascots are a hare and a leopard. Some news says that the three mascots were elected via a popular public vote through phones and the result was announced on a TV show. The stamp was released in 2013 and it was released as to celebrate the coming of new year 2014.