In this edition of our weekend gallery: the kaleidoscope of Russian life. When it is better to see something once than read about it hundred times.
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Russian servicemen take part in a military parade rehearsal in Red Square in Moscow.
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A squirrel eats bread in a Moscow park on October 31. The temperatures in the Russian capital dropped to 7 Celcius.
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Women stand inside the jaws of a megalodon, an extinct species of the shark, as they visit the international exhibition titled "Planet Shark: Predator or Prey" at the Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps in St. Petersburg.
RIA Novosti / Konstantin Rodikov
A rider in the Nitro Circus Live motor show in the Olympic sports complex in Moscow.
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Security monitors the Soyuz TMA-11M rocket as it is rolled out to the launch pad by train on Tuesday, November 5, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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A GAZ-M-21 car (1960) at the opening of the historic motor show of GAZ cars "Heroes of Their Time," at Moscow's Main Department Store.
RIA Novosti / Vladimir Vyatkin
Anastasia Lukina and Naeel Yenikeyev, students of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, perform a dance to Guilio Caccini's music at the festival of international ballet schools "Three Centuries of World Ballet" on the stage of the State Kremlin Palace.
RIA Novosti / Ramil Sitdikov
A man squats opposite a ticket machine that dispenses a free Moscow subway ticket for 30 squats. The dispernser was installed by the Russian Olympic Committee at Vystavochnaya station as part of the "Olympic Changes" project.
RIA Novosti / Igor Russak
A Bengal cat and visitors at the exhibit hall of Cat's Republic, a club, art cafe, library and cats' home combined.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands and Queen Maxima are seen here during their meeting in the Kremlin.
RIA Novosti / Pavel Lisitsyn
A presentation flight of a DA-40 NC single-engine four-seater designed for pilots' basic training and assembled at JSC Ural Civil Aviation Engineering Plant jointly with Austria's "Diamond Aircraft Industries" GmbH.
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Lyudmila Popova, 18, of Sakha (Yakutia) Republic performs during the final show of the 7th "Miss Asia-Siberia" inter-regional amateur beauty and talents contest in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
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Ruslan Lebedev, Merited Master of Swimming of Russia, member of the Russian national team, leaves Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky aboard the boat Afina during the Olympic Torch Relay in the Avacha Bay, Kamchatka Territory.
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Russian model Maryna Linchuk gets ready backstage prior to the 2013 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at the Lexington Avenue Armory in New York.