It’s a “roll your own” Olympics in this Russian village! Where’s Mr Zig-Zag when you need him? Now, this took some INGENUITY. There be some good ideas in those plain ol’ down home folks… WTF! It HAS to be Russia… you can’t understand it with your mind, you can only accept it for what it is…
BMD
This proud rooster is the “cock of the walk” of the village… WTF! It HAS to be Russia… you can’t understand it with your mind, you can only accept it for what it is…
BMD
Talk about a PATRIOTIC centrepiece for the banquet table… WTF! It HAS to be Russia… you can’t understand it with your mind, you can only accept it for what it is…
BMD
A cop on duty during the Olympic torch relay in Ufa.
Policeman salutes a driver dressed as Ded Moroz, who brought the New Year’s tree to the Moscow Kremlin.
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}.
Demonstrator at pro-EU rally on the Maidan in Kiev from the Narodnoye Veche group.
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.
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.
Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova leaving the correctional colony after her amnesty.
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.
Yevgeni Plyushchenko competing in men’s single figure skating short programme at the Russian Cup figure skating championship in Sochi.
The view from the top of the main New Year’s tree in Cathedral Square in the Moscow Kremlin.
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.
A scene from Tchaikovsky‘s ballet The Nutcracker staged by Igor Zelensky on the stage of the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.
Ded Moroz made a lap around the Garden Ring.
Actors wearing deer antlers play with children at the Moscow Zoopark during a presentation featuring Ded Moroz.
Lying in state of the coffin of small arms designer Lieutenant General Mikhail Kalashnikov at the Cathedral of the Holy Archangel Michael in Izhevsk.
27 December 2013
RIA-Novosti
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