Kaleidoscope of Russian Life

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and President of the United States of America Barack Obama during the official welcome of heads of delegations of G20 member states, invited countries, and international organizations.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and President of the United States of America Barack Obama during the official welcome of heads of delegations of G20 member states, invited countries, and international organizations.

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Actor Justin Timberlake at a photo call for Runner Runner, directed by Brad Furman, on the roof of The Ritz-Carlton Moscow.

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Visitors to the Ostankino TV Tower which opened for the public after a planned renovation and replacement of utility lines.

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Opera singer Nadezhda Gulitskaya performs at the "Eternal City - Eternal Music" on Theatre Square in Moscow.

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Anna Chicherova of Russia competes in the women's high-jump during the IAAF Diamond League athletics meeting, also known as Memorial Van Damme, in Brussels

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Alexander Marchenko, an entrepreneur from the village of Cheryomushki, on the deck of his ship. Marchenko is building a replica of the Black Pearl pirate ship from the film "Pirates of the Caribbean", on the Yenisei River.

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Servicemen during the 2013 Combat Commonwealth, a military drill for the CIS joint air defense system, at the Ashuluk training ground.

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Russia's defense Iuliia Morozova, left and Ekaterina Pankova, jump to block the ball, during the Women's Volleyball European Championship quarterfinal match between Russia and Turkey in Halle in Westfalen, Germany.

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, U.N. Special Representative Lakhdar Brahimi, center, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov deliver a statement to the media after a meeting discussing Syria at the United Nations offices in Geneva, Switzerland. Kerry and Lavrov said Friday the prospects for a resumption in the Syria peace process are riding on the outcome of their chemical weapons talks.

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The Ostry Tobalchik and Plosky Tobalchik volcanoes in Kamchatka.

Participants and tourists at the Alhalalalai ritual of giving appreciation to nature for its gifts in the Itelmen village of Pimchakh, Kamchatka Peninsula, feed the Khantai idol. Men carry the idol in a circle for everyone to offer the Khantai a coin or a piece of food.

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Lars Ulrich, drummer and one of the founding members of Metallica band, is pictured here during the first night of Nimrod Antal's film "Metallica: Through the Never" at the state Kremlin Palace.

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A couple at the unveiling of the Forever Together sundial on the Sportivnaya Embankment, Vladivostok.

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The crew of the Vashavyanka-type Krasnokamensk diesel submarine is seen here at the welcoming ceremony t at the Russian Pacific Fleet's main base in Vladivostok.

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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (centre, on R) meets Russian deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov (centre, on L) in Damascus, in this handout photograph distributed by Syria's national news agency SANA. Russia denounced U.N. investigators' findings on a poison gas attack in Syria as preconceived and tainted by politics on Wednesday, stepping up its criticism of a report Western nations said proved Assad's forces were responsible.