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A girl takes pictures of tulips in a greenhouse on an open day at the Flora Style company.
Vitaliy Ankov / RIA Novosti
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Zebras, female Zizi (front) and male Moryachok, run on the snow in an open-air enclosure at the Royev Ruchey zoo on the suburbs of Krasnoyarsk,
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A march held by the Communist Party of Russia and other left and patriotic organizations to mark the 95th anniversary of the Soviet Army and Navy.
Grigory Sisoev / RIA Novosti
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The TOP CAT WCF international cats show among Maine Coon breeds.
Pavel Lysizin / RIA Novosti
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, welcomes Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, left, in Moscow, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013.
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Freed Pussy Riot punk Yekaterina Samutsevich speaks during her interview with Agence France-Presse in Moscow on February 25, 2013. Samutsevich vowed to pursue every legal route to free her two jailed bandmates, saying there was still a chance the Russian authorities could free the two her bandmates, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, early.
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visits the Aviation Research Center in Lytkarino outside Moscow.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu attend a meeting with top military officials in Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on the country's top brass to deliver a drastic upgrade of the armed forces in the next three years to fend off attempts from abroad to "tip the strategic balance" in the world.
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A reticulated giraffe is born in the Kaliningrad zoo.
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Khan, a 3-year-old male Bengali white tiger, participates in his weekly training session with a piece of meat inside an open-air cage at the Royev Ruchey zoo in a surburb of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, February 27, 2013. Every Wednesday, a zookeeper will train Khan using meat suspended on a chain so that the tiger will not lose motor and mental skills associated with hunting, an official representative of the zoo said.
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A woman cleans off her car after a snowfall.
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Manaf Tlass, a former elite army commander and close confidant of Syrian President Bashar Assad who defected last summer, speaks to press before entering Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters for a meeting with Russian officials in Moscow.
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Children of the nomadic reindeer herders – Xenia and Anton – are waiting near their tent. Soon nomads will take part in the herders’ competition, organized by the governorate of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
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In Sakhalin Oblast a local man is trying to dig his car out of the snow. The day before there was a heavy snowstorm here.break]Sergey Krasnouhov / RIA Novosti
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, foreground, right, with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, background, right, at Zavidovo residence.
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