Performance by finalists of the Miss Russia 2018 beauty pageant at the Barvikha concert hall.

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Participants in the 2018 Total Dictation annual literacy test at the Russian State Library in Moscow.

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Servicemen of the Presidential Regiment during a changing of the guard ceremony on Cathedral Square at the Kremlin, Moscow.

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A young participant in the city-wide volunteer clean-up day initiative at Museon Park of Arts.

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Film director, musician, The No Smoking Orchestra frontman Emir Kusturica at the 'Brojanica Fest: Kusturica Marathon' festival held in the Luxor IMAX cinema, Sochi.

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Pyongyang residents in the rain.

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The construction area of the Mordovia Arena.

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April 14, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev during a meeting ahead of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council meeting at Ala-Archa residence in Bishkek.

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A crack on the drift ice, the base of the Barneo expedition drift ice camp in the Arctic.

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A street lamp on the city embankment during the snowfall in Petrozavodsk.

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A banner near the entrance to the Illuzion movie theater in Moscow dedicated to the theater's 50th anniversary.

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CSKA's Andrey Vorontsevich plays at the Euroleague Basketball quarterfinal match between PBC CSKA Moscow, Russia and BC Crvena Zvezda Belgrade, Serbia.

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Crvena Zvezda head coach Dejan Radonic (left) and player Tarence Kinsey at the Euroleague Basketball quarterfinal match between PBC CSKA Moscow, Russia and BC Crvena Zvezda Belgrade, Serbia.

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President Vladimir Putin on completion of the annual Q&A live nationwide broadcast from the Moscow Gostiny Dvor studio, April 14, 2016.

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A serviceman carries a shoulder-launched anti-air missile system during the military exercise in the Lugansk People's Republic.

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President Vladimir Putin facing journalists on completion of the annual Q&A live nationwide broadcast from the Moscow Gostiny Dvor studio, April 14, 2016.

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BTR-82A armored personnel carriers of the motorized column of the Western Military District are seen here during practice for the parade marking the 71st anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War on the airfield in Pushkin.

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Horse stud farm of "Pobeda" State-owned farm. Moscow region, 1939.

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Artist Veniamin Chebanov, veteran of the Great Patriotic War, works at his studio on the painting Slavyansk under siege for his solo exhibition, To the Living and the Fallen, at the Novosibirsk Art Museum.

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Militants expelled from Krak des Chevaliers castle in Syria. This photo shows guards standing on a castle tower. The fortress was liberated by Syrian government forces in March 2014, and Islamic militants were expelled, after occupying it for two and a half years.

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Representatives of military-patriotic clubs, educational institutions and cadet schools take part in a ceremonial parade.

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Actor Alexander Filippenko during the one-man show "A demarche Enthusiasts" in the Politeater.

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A rally in support of the former Astrakhan mayor candidate Oleg Shein.

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Pepsi-Cola advertising campaign.

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April 14, 2011. The participants of the BRICS Leaders Meeting, from left: India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev, Chinese leader Hu Jintao, Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff and South Africa's President Jacob Zuma pose for photo at the Sheraton Hotel in Sanya, Hainan.

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Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, foreground right, meets with Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri.

14.04.1997#873421

Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov (center) with wife, Nikolai Talyzin (right), candidate member for the Politburo CC, First Deputy Prime Minister of the USSR, meeting Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson (fourth left) who arrived in Moscow with wife on an invitation by the Soviet government. Sheremetevo airport.

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Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Viktor Chernomyrdin discussing new bus trial models outside the House of Government, Moscow. 1994.

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Table tennis European championship. Women. Final game. Soviet athlete Valentina Popova.

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Curator Simon Geychenko in his office at the A.S. Pushkin State Museum "Mikhailovskoye".

14.04.1992#780939

Soviet Defense Minister Andrei Grechko's visit to the Arab Republic of Egypt. The welcome meeting at the Cairo airport. Andrei Grechko and Defense Minister of Egypt M. Sadek prepare to inspect the guard of honor.

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Reproduction of 1944 photo. The Odessa Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet.

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Turkish poet Nazim Khikmet is at the ceremonial meeting dedicated to the memory of Vladimir Mayarkovsky (July 19 (17), 1893 - April 14, 1930). House of Unions Tower Hall.

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Commander of the 6th Army Lieutenant General Gorodnyansky, left, and brigade commissar Danilov, right. // The Southwestern Front, April 1942.

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Installation of Lenin monument renovated after blow-up, at Finlyandsky Railway Station.

14.04.2010#627563

The first cosmonaut in the World, Hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) and the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) (right) on the tribune of Mausoleum.

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US pianist Van Cliburn, right, and Emil Gilels shaking hands. Cliburn won the 1st Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition.

14.04.1958#599446

Chairman of the Communist Party of Denmark Knud Jesperesen and member of the Communist party of Denmark's Executive Committee V.Vogelsang at airport.

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Chairman of the Russian Union of Weapon Makers and twice Hero of Socialist Labor Mikhail Kalashnikov and residents at the opening ceremony of new streets in Moscow named after Heroes of Socialist Labour Ivan Kozhedub and Ivan Bargramyan.

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The oldest workers of the Pravda newspaper, left to right: A. Leontyev, active distributor of "Pravda" and fund raiser for publishing the newspaper, CPSU member since 1907, owner of the flats where the editorial office of "Pravda" was located in 1912; V. Kudryashov, active distributor of the newspaper, CPSU member since 1912, raised a lot of money for publishing the newspaper at the Metallichesky Zavod in 1912-1917; S. Lapshin, correspondent of the first issues of "Pravda," CPSU member since 1912, used the pseudonym "Rabochy" in the newspaper.

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muscovites greeting astronauts Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich on their arrival from Brazil, 1963.

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From left: restaurant owner Arkady Novikov, State Duma deputy Vladimir Gruzdev and Andrei Vorobyov, head of the United Russia party's central executive committee, during the 9th congress of the party at the Gostiny Dvor exhibition center.

14.04.2008#306616

Turgenevskay Square, where an opposition rally was held, was surrounded by OMON, special purpose police detachment.

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Syria's President Hafez al-Assad and a delegation accompanying him to the Soviet Union at the Motherland sculpture of the Mamayev Hill WWII memorial in Volgograd, 1974.

14.04.1974#139833

The CPSU CC General Secretary Brezhnev and leaders of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the government at the Vnukovo airport inspecting new specimens of civilian jet planes and helicopters.

14.04.1971#129721

Russian president with Sovremennik actresses on the day of the theatre's jubilee. From left to right in the photo: Marina Neyolova, Vladimir Putin, Chulpan Khamatova and Lilia Tolmacheva.

14.04.2006#125934

Eduard Shevardnadze, USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the signing ceremony of the Joint Declaration on international guarantees, and the Agreement on the Settlement of the Situation Relating to Afghanistan. April 1988

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Hero of the Soviet Union Lieutenant-General (Ret) Nikolai Biryukov (left) relating to Hero of the Soviet Union Colonel-General (Ret) Nikolai Fomin (center) and Hero of the Soviet Union Lieutenant-General (Ret) Pyotr Antipov (left) about the liberation of Hungary during the Second World War.

14.04.1975#59861

Raisa Gorbachev (center) in Ginza, Tokyo's central district.

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Yelena Raiskaya, member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1938 (right) and her granddaughter Lena (left) visiting the Lenin Museum.

14.04.1977#24502

MSU students and visitors from Britain on their way to a hot air balloon launch ceremony. The balloon was presented to the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League Central Committee by the visitors.

14.04.1989#24221

Ex-Chairman of the Supreme Council Anatoly Lukyanov, charged with plotting a state coup (GKChP), welcomes the rally in front of the Supreme Court building.

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Soviet playwright Viktor Rozov.

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Austrian soldiers showing the white flag.

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