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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Carousel in Central Park of Culture and Rest named after Mayakovsky in Yekaterinburg.
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A Russian submarine is anchored on the Neva River in front the Pawel and Peter Fortress during preparations for Navy Day in central St. Petersburg, July 25, 2013. Russia will mark its Navy Day on Sunday.
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Fragment of the sound performance of Dina Hussein "Tool" at the festival "Archstoyanie 2013. Leto" in the Kaluga region.
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Participants of rally of classic cars "Night Moscow 2013" after the finish at the hotel "Ukraine".
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Russia. Moscow. July 28. Participants of the rally "For Free Internet" on the square in front of the metro station "Ulitsa 1905" against the abolition of the law of arbitrary blocking of Internet resources.
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This picture taken on July 17, 2013 shows members of Russian Synchronized swimming team performing an underwater fashion show in Fuzhou, east China's Fujian province.
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An employee sorts mushrooms.
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Member of Russian freestyle ski team Timofey Slivets trains in Sochi. Member of the Russian freestyle ski team Timofey Slivets during a training session in Sochi.
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Kubana festival. Day One. Visitors waiting for the Kubana festival to open.
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Russia's Yuliya Efimova, left, Lithuania's Ruta Meilutyte, centre, and Jessica Hardy of the United States compete in the Women's 50 breaststroke final at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. Efimova won the gold medal.
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Russia. Ivanovo oblast. August 5. A competitor in diving on a bicycle Fun Jumping.
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Zoo employee Yekaterina Mikhailova plays with Vesna, a four-month-old female snow fox cub, in an enclosure at the Royev Ruchey zoo in a surburb of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, August 6, 2013. Vesna is the first attempt by the zoo to domesticate a wild fox.
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Dancers take a rest during a rehearsal of opening ceremony in Luzhniki stadium in Moscow on August 7, 2013 ahead of the world athletics championships which will take place in Moscow from August 10 to August 18.
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Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is pictured aboard a helicopter before visiting Olympic facilities in Sochi August 7, 2013.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin walks after a ceremony of his first judo coach, Anatoly Rakhlin in St.Petersburg, on Friday, Aug. 9, 2013. Rakhlin, 75, died Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013, in St. Petersburg, where he lived.
