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The sweeping epic called Russia never lacks for a powerful image, and this is amply true of the country during February 2011. Russia Beyond the Headlines has compiled our most compelling photographs for our readers, from the dazzling fireworks display over the European splendor called St. Petersburg to the lonely moments of prayer for a “black widow” who lost her rebel husband and is shunned by her community in Dagestan. We begin our story of the month of February with a portrait of a Russian Navy cadet so striking it is almost haunting, and we hope to entertain you with the calisthenics of an older Russian whose outdoor antics cry “Russia!” Ultimately, pictures do say say so much about a place, in this case illustrating the contradictions and wonder of the largest country on earth. Enjoy!
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Russia’s Elena Isinbayeva prepares for her attempt at 4.82 meters in the pole vault event during Russian Winter IAAF Indoor Athletic Championship in Moscow Photo by Sergey Ponomarev / AP
FEB 6 4.82 m
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A monument dedicated to the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, in Yekaterinburg. Photo by Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant
FEB 1 YELTSIN’S JUBILEE
Dmitry Medvedev lays flowers at the monument to victims of the Sept. 2004 school seige in Beslan. Photo by Dmitry Astakhov / Presidential Press Service
FEB 22 BESLAN
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Pope Benedict XVI (right) react during Medvedev‘s private audience at the Vatican Feb. 17, 2011. Medvedev met with the pope during a two-day Photo by Christophe Simon / Reuters
visit to Italy.
FEB 17 VATICAN
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„If I wanted to commit a terrorist attack, I would have not lived openly in Dagestan’s capital beled „black widows“ in the press after last spring‘s metro bombing find it difficult to go on Photo by Oksana Yushko
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THE OLDEST CITY
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Snow kite boarders enjoy their sport on the frozen Finnish Gulf at sunset outside St. Petersbu The temperature that day in St. Petersburg was -19C (-2.2F). Photo by Dmitry Lovetsky / AP
urg, Russia.
FEB 9 novgorod THE OLDEST CITY
FEB 13 SNOW KITE
A swimmer climbs out of the icy water in a pond in St. Petersburg as fish cluster within an ice hole struggling for air. Photo by Dmitry Lovetsky / AP
FEB 10 gasping
Winter seems no match for this man trying to freeze off old age by conducting his physical training outdoors. Photo by Georgy Shpikalov
FEB 11 pt
Couples share a tender moment during a flash mob assembled to celebrate Valentine‘s Day i Photo by Dmitry Lovetsky / AP
in St. Petersburg.
FEB 9 novgorod THE OLDEST CITY
FEB 14 A PUBLIC KISS
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Ivan Skobrev‘s win was a breakthrough for Russia in the world of speed skating, as he becam post-Soviet Russian to win the world all-around speed-skating championship. Source: Reuters
me the first
FEB 14 speed skating
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Trainees in spacesuits assisted by scuba divers train in a pool at the Russian Cosmonauts Trai side Moscow. Underwater training simulating conditions of weightlessness is part of the traini Photo by Sergey Ponomarev / AP
ining Center at the Star City outing for space crews.
FEB 9 novgorod THE OLDEST CITY
FEB 18 READY FOR SPACE
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„Road Home“ magazine editor Arkady Turin jumped through a burning circle to raise money of the creators of an animated short about Francis of Assisi. The cartoon was presented at th Photo by Andrey Gerasimov
y for the treatment of Anatoly Baranov, a homeless man and one he international Takoe Kino film festival in October 2010.
FEB 25 BURNING CIRCLE
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„I am very sorry,“ said Roza Yevloyeva, in an interview at her house in the town of Ali-Yurt. H tonated explosives strapped to his body at Moscow‘s Domodedovo airport on Jan. 24, killing Source: Reuters
Her son, 20-year-old Magomed Yevloyev, FEB 9 denovgorod g 36 people.
THE OLDEST CITY
FEB 16 domodedovo bombing
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The exhibit Silentium by Rauf Mamedov opened at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Mamedov photo Through his photographs, he hopes to evoke compassion and empathy in his audience. Photo by Alexander Shcherbak / Kommersant.
tographs people with Down‘s Syndrome.
FEB 9 novgorod THE OLDEST CITY
FEB 9 SILENTIUM
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Buddhists in St. Petersburg participate in the Dugzhuuba ceremony, a purification rite, on th Source: RIA Novosti
he eve of the Buddhist New Year.
FEB 9 novgorod THE OLDEST CITY
FEB 2 BUDDHIST NEW YEAR
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi holds a press conference with Russia Dmitry Medvedev during a meeting at Villa Madama in Rome. Photo by Max Rossi / Reuters
an President
FEB 9 novgorod THE OLDEST CITY
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Russian navy sailors participate in a tug-of-war competition as they celebrate the annua of the Motherland Day in the far eastern city of Vladivostok. Photo by Max Rossi / Reuters
al Defender
FEB 23 NAVY TUG OF WAR
Russian Communist Party supporters in central Moscow take part in a rally to mark the annu Defender of the Fatherland Day. Photo by Alexander Natruskin / Reuters
ual
FEB 9 novgorod THE OLDEST CITY
FEB 23 COMMUNISTS UNITE
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Fireworks light up the sky during celebrations for the FEB 23 Defender of the Fatherland dayFEB in9St. Petersburg.Don augue eget arcu bla ndit sollicitudin. Nulla quis lao iac.Cerceperorem ne BRIGHT novgorod Photo by Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters
THE OLDEST CITY
LIGHTS
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The Kizimen volcano has been erupting since the end of FEB 9 2010. The most spectacular andFEB powerful eruptions have Don augue eget arcu bla ndit sollicitudin. Nulla quis lao iac.Cerceperorem ne VOLCANIC 9 ne nosupiorum, num iam dicatis fui patis no. At actodiena, o ut nonfirit estum EFFECT occurred during February 2011. novgorod andieCupplin serembonsupe ropubl virmil iena cupeci condes confectAt actod Photo by Igor Shpilenok
THE OLDEST CITY
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A man fishes through the ice on the Ivankovskyoe Reservoir in the Tver Region town of Kon Photo by Andrey Rudakov / Reuters
nakovo.
FEB 9 novgorod THE OLDEST CITY
FEB 5 KONAKOVO
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Tasik, a male pigtail macaque, sips red wine from a bottle at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in Russia Keepers at the zoo believe that adding red wine, onion and garlic into the monkeys‘ diet wil Photo by Ilya Naymushin / Reuters
a‘s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. FEB 9 novgorod ll reduce their risk of acquiring the H1N1 infection. THE OLDEST CITY
FEB 7 TO YOUR HEALTH
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Inmates get some air at a male prison camp outside the Siberia‘s Krasnoyarsk. Photo by Ilya Naymushin / Reuters
FEB 7 krasnoyarsk JAIL
Activists from the group „KhZ“ clear snow dressed in miniskirts outside St. Isaac‘s cathedral The action was aimed to draw attention to the lack of snow clearing in Russia‘s second city. Photo by Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters
in St.Petersburg.
FEB 9 novgorod THE OLDEST CITY
FEB 10 KhZ
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Competitors in the annual cross-country ski race „Moscow Ski Track.“ Around 15,000 people dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the world‘s first manned space flight. Source: ITAR-TASS
e participated in this year‘s event, which FEB 9was
novgorod THE OLDEST CITY
FEB 7 SKI DELUGE
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Sergeant Menshenin earns $850, which is a penurious sum of money in one of the most expensive cities in the world. Photo by Ruslan Sukhushin
feb 26 moscow cop
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Viktor Belyaev, former Kremlin chef: „I cooked for Indira Gandhi, Erich Hoenecker, Helmut Kohl, and Valéry Giscard d‘Estaing.“ Photo by Kirill Lagutko
FEB 27 chef
The view from the nuclear icebreaker „Vaigach,“ which came to the aid of about 40 ships tra Photo by Ruslan Shamukov / ITAR-TASS
apped in ice in the Gulf of Finland.
FEB 9 novgorod THE OLDEST CITY
FEB 28 ICEBREAKER
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev attend the opening of an exhibition on Gorbachev‘s life.
FEB 24 gorbachev’s jubilee
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