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Kids will be kids… Sov kids at a pre-New Year holiday shop window display. Kids haven’t changed, have they?
BMD
Saturday, 26 November 2016
Monday, 7 December 2015
7 December 2015. Now, Here’s an Old School Sov Era New Year…
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This is what most Russian people think of for the New Year. In Russia, New Year is the gift-giving time and Christmas is a religious holyday… isn’t that a right proper way to keep holy things holy?
BMD
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Wednesday, 8 January 2014
8 January 2014. A Photo Essay. It’s Wintertime in Russia…
Walking in the snow in Moscow (Federal City of Moscow. Central Federal District)
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Lermontov monument in Stavropol (Stavropol Krai. Southern Federal District)
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Boater dressed as Santa Claus on the Yenisei River near Krasnoyarsk (Krasnoyarsk Krai. Siberian Federal District) noting the end of the navigation season
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On the banks of the Moskva River in Moscow Oblast (Central Federal District) near the Moscow city limits
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A kid with a snowman in Moscow (Federal City of Moscow. Central Federal District)
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Ice sculpture of Kazan Cathedral in St Petersburg (Federal City of St Petersburg. Northwestern Federal District)
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Love STILL conquers all in Stavropol (Stavropol Krai. Southern Federal District)
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Anglers take their fishing seriously in Divnogorsk (Krasnoyarsk Krai. Siberian Federal District)
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Taking a stroll in Veliki Ustyug (Vologda Oblast. Northwestern Federal District)… the official home of Ded Moroz, dontcha know!
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Harness racing on the frozen Yenisei River near Novosyolovo (Novosyolovo Raion. Krasnoyarsk Krai. Siberian Federal District)
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Mist over the Angara River in Irkutsk (Irkutsk Oblast. Siberian Federal District)
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Brrrr! That looks plenty cold! Do pass the jug… I think that all of us need it… it’s wintertime in Russia!
BMD
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Thursday, 2 January 2014
RIA-Novosti Presents… Photos of the Week, 21-27 December 2013: Olympic Fire, Ded Moroz, Kobzon the Terrible, and Others…
A cop on duty during the Olympic torch relay in Ufa.
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Policeman salutes a driver dressed as Ded Moroz, who brought the New Year’s tree to the Moscow Kremlin.
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former CEO of YUKOS, at a press conference at the Museum of the Berlin Wall {the place is a crapitalist rip-off, the admission is 12.50 Euros (564 Roubles. 17 USD. 18 CAD. 19 AUD. 10.40 UK Pounds) per person! An appropriate venue for a scammer, isn’t it?: editor}.
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Demonstrator at pro-EU rally on the Maidan in Kiev from the Narodnoye Veche group.
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Dynamo-Kazan goalkeeper Anders Svensson with Yevgeni Ivanushkin (Dynamo-Moscow) and Aleksei Bushuev (Dynamo Kazan) (left to right) in the Russian Super Cup for Bandy.
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Iosif Kobzon, First Deputy Chairman of the RF Gosduma Committee on Culture, and Valentina Tereshkova, Deputy Chairman of the RF Gosduma Committee for International Affairs, at a plenary meeting.
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Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova leaving the correctional colony after her amnesty.
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President Vladimir Putin, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev (right to left) before the beginning of the session of the Supreme Council of the Eurasian Economic Community in the Kremlin.
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Yevgeni Plyushchenko competing in men’s single figure skating short programme at the Russian Cup figure skating championship in Sochi.
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The view from the top of the main New Year’s tree in Cathedral Square in the Moscow Kremlin.
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Opera singer Yelena Obraztsova and Vladimir Urin, the Director of the Bolshoi Theatre, at a press conference devoted to the 50th anniversary of Obraztsova’s début on the stage.
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A scene from Tchaikovsky‘s ballet The Nutcracker staged by Igor Zelensky on the stage of the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.
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Ded Moroz made a lap around the Garden Ring.
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Actors wearing deer antlers play with children at the Moscow Zoopark during a presentation featuring Ded Moroz.
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Lying in state of the coffin of small arms designer Lieutenant General Mikhail Kalashnikov at the Cathedral of the Holy Archangel Michael in Izhevsk.
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27 December 2013
RIA-Novosti
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