RIA-Novosti Presents… It’s New Year in Russia!

Traditionally, Red Square is the centre of New Year festivities in Moscow.

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More than 50,000 people jammed Red Square to welcome in the New Year.

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This year is the first time that the Winter Olympics will be in Sochi.

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New Year fireworks in the main square of the Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort in Krasnaya Polyana in Greater Sochi.

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New Year’s revellers in the main square of the Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort in Krasnaya Polyana in Greater Sochi.

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In Novosibirsk, members of a healthy living society celebrated the New Year by jumping into an icy lake.

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Fireworks during the New Year celebrations in Grozny in Chechnya.

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Muscovites and tourists alike toasted the New Year at Red Square.

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Ded Moroz with Snegurochka in a car in front of an apartment house in Tara (Omsk Oblast) before going in to bring gifts to the children there.

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Vladivostok residents rang in the New Year in the central square of the city, where there was a winter village with ice slides and other attractions, as well as highlighting an entertainment programme “Marathon of New Year’s Stories”.

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1 January 2014

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14 October 2013. Our Great Russian Motherland… The 2014 Sochi Olympic Mascots on Manezh Square

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Replicas of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics mascots were placed in Manezh Square in Moscow. The main mascot is the Amur Snow Leopard, whilst the Polar Bear and Hare are secondary symbols.

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