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Russian soldiers dressed in Red Army World War II uniform prepare to march during a rehearsal for the Nov. 7 parade with St. Basil Cathedral at the background in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. The parade marks the 70th anniversary of a Nov. 7 parade on Red Square when soldiers went directly to the front during World War II. For decades Nov. 7 was a holiday celebrating the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
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Contestants prepared backstage during a professional all-Russian ballet contest, part of the first “Ballet XXI century” forum, in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.
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Russian soldiers, part of the honour guard, participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall in Moscow.
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Former Russian paratroopers arm-wrestled during annual Paratroopers Day celebrations in St. Petersburg Monday.
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Smog from forest and peat bog fires can be seen on Red Square in central Moscow on July 26, 2010. Inhabitants of Moscow were gasping as the Russian capital was blanketed in a heavy cloud of smog from forest and peat fires caused by the severest heatwave for decades.
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Local residents look at a heavy smog from a peat fire in a forest near the town of Shatura, some 130 km (81 miles) southeast of Moscow, Thursday, July 29, 2010. Peat swamps started burning in central Russia following an unprecedented heat wave.
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Firefighters work to extinguish a peat fire in a forest near the village Ryazanovka outside Moscow on July 29, 2010.
Mikhail Metzel/AP Photo
Flames travel along the floor of the forest as a parched forest burns near a suburb of the town of Voronezh some 500 km (294 miles) south of Moscow, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. Hundreds of new fires broke out Sunday in Russian forests and fields that have been dried to a crisp by drought and record heat.
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A protester burned a Russian national flag during a rally in Tbilisi, Georgia, for anniversary of the 1921 occupation of the Red Army.
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Russian Army paratroopers trained near the town of Ivanovo on Thursday.
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Members of the pro-Kremlin youth movement Nashi wearing boots pasted up with stickers of President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine and Premier Yulia Timoshenko, a presidential candidate, during a demonstration in front of the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow.
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