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RIA Novosti / Anna Volkova
A worker at the brand-new Mezhdunarodnaya metro station in St. Petersburg.
RIA Novosti / Vitaliy Anykov
Tigresses Amurochka and Taiga in an enclosure at Shkotovo safari park in Primorye.
Tass Photo
New Year's Show for children at Moscow Kremlin Palace.
Tass Photo
President Putin visits India.
AP
Plosky Tolbachnik volcano erupts in Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. A Russian volcano which started erupting last week has continued to spew ash and smoke into the air. The Plosky Tolbachik volcano, in the Kamchatka Peninsula, last erupted in 1976.
RIA Novosti / Pavel Lisicin
Nun Sati Sattva plays with puppies at Shad Tchup Ling Buddhist monastery on Kachkanar mountain, the Sverdlovsk region.
RIA Novosti / Konstantin Rodikov
Joseph Stalin's look-alike seen standing by the gas water machine at the USSR Museum opening ceremony in the Russian Exhibition Center, Moscow.
Anton Denisov / RIA Novosti
Passengers on the platform of the just opened Pyatnitskoye Shosse metro station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line in Moscow.
AP
Rescuers work at the site where a plane careered off the runwaw at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. A Tu-204 aircraft belonging to Russian airline Red Wings careered off the runway at Russia's third-busiest airport on Saturday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing several people.
Reuters
A believer places lit candles during a Christmas Eve service at Kazansky Cathedral in St. Petersburg.
Reuters
Members of the Cryophil amateur winter bathing club swim with a "New Year tree" in the Yenisei River as they celebrate the upcoming new year in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
Dmitry Astakhov / RIA Novosti
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak seen ahead of a meeting to discuss preparations for trial competitions to be held in 2013 at Sochi's Olympic facilities.
AP
A visitor takes a picture of Caprinita, a 4-year elephant, at the Moscow Zoo.
