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Uni the snow leopard kitten, the mascot of the 27th World University Summer Games 2013, is pictured in front of the central entrance to the Kazan Arena Stadium.
REUTERS / Sergei Karpukhin
Dancer Anna Tikhomirova (C) in the role of Olga performs during a media preview of the ballet "Onegin" at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
Konstantin Chalabov / RIA Novosti
Russia's Sergei Sviridov during the 1500m race of the men’s decathlon at the 27th World University Summer Games in Kazan.
Ricardo Marquina / RBTH
Sportsman performs pirouette during competition "freestyle" in St. Petersburg.
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Young people taking part in a Holi ColorFest (festival of colors) at the WT's All-Russian Exhibition Centre in Moscow.
Reuters
A ship sails through the morning fog along the Yenisei River near Galanino village, about 250 km (155 miles) north of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Yenisei, one of the largest river systems in the world which rises in Mongolia and flows into the Arctic ocean, is the life artery for the residents populating its banks.
Pavel Lisitsyn / RIA Novosti
Hot air balloons participating in the Sky Fair international balloon festival make a flight over the border between Europe and Asia in the area of the town of Pervouralsk.
ITAR-TASS
One of the seven Chinese warship's arrived in Russia's Far Eastern port of Vladivostok to participate in a week-long joint naval drill.
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A bout between Russian mixed martial arts fighter Alexander Emelianenko (L) and Brazil's Jose Guelke.
Mikhail Syritsa / RIA Novosti
Su-27 jets of the Russian Knights aerobatic team at a temporary base airfield in the town of Pushkin.
AP
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gestures toward Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, as he deflects a question from a reporter about whether they will discuss asylum for National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden during Kerry and Lavrov's meeting at the ASEAN summit in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei.
AFP/East News
Children play in front of the Soviet-era monument To the Conquerors of Space in Moscow.
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Participants of the "Grand Water Battle" in Saint-Petersburg.
ITAR-TASS
Woman in folk costume seen during Tatar and Bashkir national festival Sabantui at Kolomeskoye Historical and Nature Museum-Reserve.
In this photo taken from a remote controlled helicopter, firefighters vehicles stand at Dvortsovaya (Palace) square during a parade marking 210th anniversary of establishing the firefighters service in Russia in St.Petersburg
Alexey Filippov / RIA Novosti
A gold medal for the 2014 Sochi Olympics made by the Adamas jewelry company, Moscow.
