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Kirill Lewerski, a cadet on the Russian tall ship Kruzenshtern. FEB 11
This photo was awarded 2nd place in the portrait category in wpp
2011
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Dedication of a monument to the first president of Russia, FEB 1
Boris Yeltsin, in Yekaterinburg. YELTSIN’S
Photo by Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant JUBILEE
3. Dmitry Medvedev lays flowers at the monument to victims FEB 22
of the Sept. 2004 tragedy in Beslan. BESLAN
Photo by Dmitry Astakhov / Presidential Press Service
4. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Pope Benedict XVI (R) react during Medvedev‘s priv
the Vatican Feb. 17, 2011. Medvedev met with the pope during a two-day visit to Italy.
Photo by Christophe Simon / Reuters
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„If I wanted to commit a terrorist attack, I would have not lived openly in Dagestan’s capital
Those labeled „black widows“ after last spring‘s metro bombing find it difficult to go on with
Photo by Oksana Yushko
7. l. I would not have enrolled my son in school.“
FEB 9 FEB 17
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h their lives, especially as terrorist attacks continue.
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8. Snow kite boarders enjoy their sport on the frozen Finnish Gulf at sunset outside St. Petersbu
The temperature that day in St. Petersburg was -19C (-2.2F).
Photo by Dmitry Lovetsky / AP
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10. A swimmer climbs out of the icy water in a pond in FEB 10
St. Petersburg as fish cluster at an ice hole struggling for air. gASpINg
Photo by Dmitry Lovetsky / AP
11. Deep inside the winter frost, a man tries to freeze off FEB 11
old age by doing his physical training outdoor. pT
Photo by Georgy Shpikalov
12. Couples share a tender moment during a flash mob marking Valentine‘s Day in St. Petersburg
Photo by Dmitry Lovetsky / AP
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14. Ivan Skobrev made a breakthrough for Russia in the world of speed skating, becoming the fir
Russian to win the world all-around speed-skating championship.
Source: Reuters
16. Trainees in spacesuits assisted by scuba divers train in a pool at the Russian Cosmonauts Trai
side Moscow. Underwater training simulating conditions of weightlessness is part of the traini
Photo by Sergey Ponomarev / AP
17. ining Center at the Star City out- FEB 9 FEB 18
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„Road Home“ magazine editor Arkady Turin jumped through a burning circle to raise money
of the authors of a cartoon about Francis of Assisi. The cartoon was presented at the interna
Photo by Andrey Gerasimov
19. y for the treatment of Anatoly Baranov, a homeless man and one FEB 25
ational Takoe Kino film festival in October 2010. BUrNINg
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20. „I am very sorry,“ said Roza Yevloyeva, in an interview at her house in the town of Ali-Yurt. H
tonated explosives strapped to his body at Moscow‘s Domodedeovo airport on Jan. 24, killin
Photo by Reuters
21. Her son, 20-year-old Magomed Yevloyev, de-
FEB 9 FEB 16
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ng 36 people. NovgoroD
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22. The exhibit Silentium by Rauf Mamedova opened at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Mademov photograp
Mamedov hopes to bring out compassion and empathy in his audience.
Photo by Аlexander Shcherbak / Kommersant.
23. FEB 9
phs people with Down‘s Syndrome. Through his photographs, FEB 9
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24. Buddhists in St. Petersburg participate in the Dugzhuuba ceremony, a purification rite, on th
Source: RIA Novosti
25. he eve of the Buddhist New Year. FEB 9 FEB 2
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26. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi holds a press conference with Russia
Dmitry Medvedev during a meeting at Villa Madama in Rome.
Photo by Max Rossi / Reuters
27. an President FEB 16
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28. Russian navy sailors participate in a tug-of-war competition as they celebrate the annua
of the Motherland Day in the far eastern city of Vladivostok.
Photo by Max Rossi / Reuters
30. Russian communist supporters take part in a rally to mark the annual Defender of the Father
day in central Moscow.
Photo by Alexander Natruskin / Reuters
31. rland FEB 9 FEB 23
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32. Fireworks light up the sky during celebrations for the FEB 23
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33. The Kizimen volcano has been erupting since the end of FEB 9
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Photo by Igor Shpilenok
34. A man fishes through the ice on the Ivankovskyoe Reservoir in the Tver Region town of Kon
Photo by Andrey Rudakov / Reuters
35. nakovo. FEB 9 FEB 5
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36. Tasik, a male pigtail macaque, sips red wine from a bottle at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in Russia
Keepers at the zoo believe that adding red wine, onion and garlic into the monkeys‘ diet wil
Photo by Ilya Naymushin / Reuters
37. a‘s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. FEB 9 FEB 7
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ll reduce their risk of acquiring the H1N1 infection.
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38. Inmates walk at a male prison camp outside the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
Photo by Ilya Naymushin / Reuters
40. Activists from the group „KhZ“ clear snow dressed in miniskirts outside St. Isaac‘s cathedral
draw attention to the poor state of municipal snow clearing in Russia‘s second city.
Photo by Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters
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42. In Moscow, competitors in the annual cross-country ski race „Moscow Ski Track.“ Around 15,0
which was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the world‘s first manned space flight.
Source: ITAR-TASS
43. 000 people participated in this year‘s event,
FEB 9 FEB 7
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of money in one of the most expensive cities in the world. moSCow
Photo by Ruslan Sukhushin Cop
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Viktor Belyaev, former Kremlin chef: „I cooked for Indira FEB 27
Gandhi, Erich Hoenecker, Helmut Kohl, and Valéry Giscard CHIEF
d‘Estaing.“
Photo by Kirill Lagutko
46. The view from the nuclear icebreaker „Vaigach,“ which came to the aid of about 40 ships tra
Photo by Ruslan Shamukov / ITAR-TASS
47. apped in ice in the Gulf of Finland. FEB 9
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