Soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army stand in front of the Olympic Flame during an award ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at the National Stadium in Beijing, China.

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Switzerland's Natalie Maag competes in the women's singles luge run 3 during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at the National Sliding Centre in Yanqing, China.

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Gold medalist Austria's Benjamin Karl celebrates during the flower ceremony for the snowboard men's parallel giant slalom event of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Genting Snow Park H & S Stadium in Zhangjiakou, China.

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Russian Olympic Committee's Victor Wild competes in the snowboard men's parallel giant slalom qualification during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Genting Snow Park H & S Stadium in Zhangjiakou, China.

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Clay model for a smaller copy of the monument "The Worker and Collective Farm Woman." It will be installed next to the museum of automobile equipment of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company in Verkhnyaya Pyshma.

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A truck loaded with snow at the Volokolamsky snow dumping and disposal site in Moscow.

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Ekaterina Baturina (Russia) during the women's luge training session ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

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Olympic athlete from Russia Mikhail Nazarov during the men's normal hill individual qualification at the 23rd Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's own car, red Tesla Roadster cabrio, entered into orbit by the Falcon Heavy launcher, with a dummy wearing a spacesuit at the steering wheel, in outer space. The image is a handout courtesy of a third party. Editorial use only. Archiving, commercial use and use in advertising are prohibited.

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Conductor Vladimir Yurovsky during a concert of the Svetlanov Russian State Academic Symphony Orchestra dedicated to the 140th anniversary of the first performance of Pyotr Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake," at the Rachmaninoff Concert Hall in Moscow.

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A local resident in his flat in Kievsky District of Donetsk.

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An athlete at a training session ahead of the Biathlon World Cup in Austria.

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Stewardesses at Aeroflot's stand at the 2017 National Aviation Infrastructure Show in Moscow.

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A finalist of a Chinese spelling quiz at the Confucius Institute of the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok.

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St. Petersburg residents sled down hills, ski and go ice fishing at the Suzdalskiye Lakes in St. Petersburg's Vyborgsky district on a weekend.

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Olympic champions Svetlana Ishmuratova, Lidiya Skoblikova and Alexander Zaitsev (from left to right) are being photographed with Olympic mascots before the start of the ceremony of opening the Olympic Champions Alley at the Roza Khutor alpine spa in honor of the first annivesary of the start of the 12th Olympic Winter Games.

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From left: Tarjei Boe (Norway), Andrejs Rastorgujevs (Latvia) and Alexei Almukov (Australia) at the shooting lane of the men's biathlon sprint race at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.

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Nelli Zhiganshina and Alexander Gazsi (Germany) perform their short program during the team ice dance competition at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.

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Tereza Vaculikova (Czech Republic) during the qualifying round in the women’s moguls at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.

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February 8, 2013. Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev greet each other during a meeting in Kremlin.

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The construction site of the cable-stayed bridge over Eastern Bosphorus strait to link the city of Vladivostok with its Russky Island.

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From left: Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Siberian Federal District Viktor Tolokonsky, President of the United Aircraft Corporation Mikhail Pogosyan, and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin visit Chkalov Novosibirsk Aviation Industrial Association.

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Soldiers of the 1st Ukrainian Front on the streets of Krakow. February 8, 1945. Liberation of Poland. Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Reproduction.

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Skier Aliya Iksanova at Domodedovo airport during the welcome ceremony of the Russian National Student Team that won the team contest at the 25th winter Universiade in Erzrum. 38 medals in total (14 gold and silver medals, 10 bronze medals).

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The Baikonur Space Center. From left: Members of the Soyuz-T-10 space crew -- Flight Engineer Vladimir Solovyov, Mission Commander Leonid Kizim and Cosmonaut-Researcher Oleg Atkov before lift-off.

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Visitors of Russia's 3rd Open Snow and Ice Sculpture Championship Vyugovei-94 at the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Recreation.

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The opening night of Maksim Nikulin's Permormance "Circus-2002". "Triumph of XXI century-Tigers on mirror balls on the ground and in the air" under the guidance of Merited Artist of Russia Mstislav Zapashny junior. Nikulin Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard.

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January 27, 2010. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the Krasnaya Polyana mountain ski resort.

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Conductor Pavel Kogan at a rehearsal of the Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra in the Grand Hall of Moscow Conservatory.

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Olympic champion Vyacheslav Vedenin during a 30 km ski race at the 11th Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo.

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XI Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo. Olympic Champion, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Figure Skater Ondrej Nepela.

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The Ninth Winter Olympic Games. Speed skater Lidiya Skoblikova during a 3,000m race. She won all four gold medals in speed skating and became a six-time Olympic champion.

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Students at a lecture in Moscow Lomonosov State University.

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People's Artist of the USSR Vladimir Zeldin in the play "Man From La Mancha" staged by Yuli Gusman. The Central Russian Army Theater.

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Igor Kvasha, the director of "Like a Stroll Hand-in-Hand?", a pageant verse recital to be premiered at the Sovremennik Theatre, Moscow, on February 9

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World-renowned Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina with her trainer during a padded beam exercise, 1958

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Lady workers exercise at the Moscow-based Tryokhgornaya Manufaktura textile factory early in the morning.

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Petroleum and gas prospecting in the Evenki Autonomous Area, in Siberia's north.

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Gyudmed Tantric Monastery monks apply finishing touches to a sand Mandala of the Medicine Buddha at the Rostov-on-Don local history museum in European Russia's south. The mandala is unprecedented in the contemporary routine.

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Russian First Lady Lyudmila Putin (center) visiting the flamenco dance Bulevar Theater near Madrid.

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Zurab Tsereteli, Russian Academy of Arts President, bestows on Yuri Grigorovich, renowned ballet master and People's Actor of the USSR, the academy honorary member's badge and gown

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The bell tower of the flooded St. Nicholas Cathedral.

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A Nenets reindeer breeder near his reindeer sled.

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U.S.S.R. People's Artist Maya Plisetskaya and R.S.F.S.R. People's Artist Maris Liepa preparing for a rehearsal.

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