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You've seen already some sets of photos by a famous Russian photographer Prokudin-Gorsky: 1, 2, 3. These are some close up views reavealing new details

definitely deserve your attention. On the photo fragment above: "On the river Sim at the station Ashi-Balashovskaya", 1910. Looks like a painting!

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Young people go from Moscow to St. Petersburg and back by electric trains. They have to change 4 times. All the way takes about 16 hours. They do not buy tickets. They either manage to escape controllers, or move from one car to another, or

controllers do not approach such a big marginal crowd being afraid (like in case with football fans). That's the meaning of such a journey - economy and adventures, you'll never mess up this country with any other else.

When Someones Child Becomes Yours, Part II

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We started to tell you about the kids adopted in villages last week. It's another, second, story. The dweller of a village Chany, Elena Podchasova, had always known she'd have adopted children. Today, apart from her own kids, she has 6 from other parents. She even wanted to adopt one more

little one but her husband Vladimir doubts they can afford it. And they are not so young already... The first step is the hardest. Then foster parents are afraid of nothing. They are rewarded by gratitude and love of children whose destiny changes for the better so much.

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1990-1995, Russia. 23 shots of a French journalist Jean-Paul Guilloteau taken in different regions of Russia in the years that seem to be the period of mythology now... The landscape left by the USSR. Atmosphere, streets, faces, colors, clothes and things of that time, when the Soviet Empire vanished so fast but all its material

attributes were still around. The alternative future gave only hints: brights signs, lines in the subway, bottled beer that was not a hard-to-get thing anymore... These photos are so different from what we see everyday in the varicoloured flow of news of the XXI century so it was impossible to miss.

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Some photos of the girls who beautified

PhotoForum exhibition this year.

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Now goes the story about one folk craft that would die

if a small group of enthusiasts don't sustain it.

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Summer camp "Khomutina". Residents of a children's home dream about a family, parents, a house. The children's house appeared in 1942 - kids from the siege Leningrad were brought here. Some years ago there were 120 inmates here, today - 55. Many of them are adopted. Such children have dramatic past, uneasy present and unclear future. Will they ever be happy? They get used to life in a commune, they are self-confident and sometimes cruel but each of them wants warmth anyway. Little ones always

take hands of guests... New parents should be prepared, they should give love and be patient. Adopted kids don't have to be returned back. One noisy girl was brought back just because she had broken a tail of a parrot toy and spoiled mom's cosmetics... One practical man aged 12 who lives in Mamonovo village and whose name is Andrey convinced granny to adopt other children: "Dear granny, our house is big, enough space to give home to others."

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Fine wood, gilding, marble and crystal: welcome

to the residence of the Ukrainian president!

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Some photographs from the elimination round of Miss

Primorye 2012 contest. Girls who took part are aged 14-25.

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On 12th April, 1961, a spacehip "Vostok" with a pilot-cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin aboard made its first flight into space. "Vostok" was launched from the space launching site

"Baikonur", at 9:07 of Moscow time. The space ship made a single circle around the Earth and landed at 10:55 near Smelovka village, the Saratov region.

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