A man ice dipping during the Orthodox Epiphany celebration
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A St. Petersburg school student studying robotics
Yury Belinsky/TASS
The palace of Tsar Alexis of Russia, newly built with archive blueprints
Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS
Opera diva Anna Netrebko performing on stage at the Mariinsky Theater
Yury Belinsky/TASS
Joggers in Santa outfits running across the Ob River in Novosibirsk during winter
Alexander Kryazhev/Sputnik
View from the top of one of the newly built Moscow City business center skyscrapers
Vladimir Pesnya/Sputnik
Partygoers enjoying festivities in the southern Rostov Region
Valery Matitsyn/TASS
President Dmitry Medvedev awarding the Russian patriarch Kirill during the Council of Bishops
Mikhail Klimentiev/TASS
Viktor Pivovarov’s solo exhibition ‘They’ at the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art
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A man installing a small web camera on the head of a reindeer to broadcast a day in its life
Ilya Pitalev/Sputnik
Military school students marching
Valery Sharifullin/TASS
Girls participating in the Miss Russia 2011 beauty pageant
Alexandra Mudrats/TASS
The Roza Khutor mountain resort in Sochi before the 2014 Winter Olympics
Valery Matystyn/TASS
Russia’s endless nightlife
Valery Sharifullin/TASS
A recently reopened Bolshoi Theater to a packed house after a long reconstruction
Andrei Babushkin/Sputnik
A girl enjoying a pancake during Maslenitsa celebrations in the city of Ryazan
Alexander Ryumin/TASS
Stray dogs sleeping on a bus stop bench in the city of Kostroma
Vladimir Smirnov/TASS
Admiralteyskaya, a new St. Petersburg Metro station
Alexei Danichev/Sputnik
Traffic in Moscow with the Christ the Savior Cathedral in the background
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Horse carriages riding past the just completed buildings of the Grozny City business center in Grozny, Chechen Republic
Said Tsarnaev/Sputnik
New Year decorations in Moscow
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