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Ballet, ballet, ballet... Not the most meaningful art but the most graceful. It's cloaked in myths about utterly strict discipline, about incredible working capacity of fragile ballerinas... They seem to be

aliens indeed. And they are really different. All their life flows on the stage and they have no time for anything else. They come here aged 10 and leave... by efforts of our lawmakers after 60...

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Let's have a look at how representatives of

Ukrainian and Russian beau monde prefer to dress...

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1918. By the end of April Vyborg was about to fall under the pressure of the Germans and White Finns. Red Finns were opposing with all their might. Thus, on 21st of April,

2012, on the Battery Mountain (Batareynaya Gora) there was held a reconstruction devoted to the last days of the city defence from the stronger enemies.

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A story of one hunting for elks near

Kabanovo village, the Moscow region.

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30 km from Yakutsk there is a mirror-world

with temperature -14C, a cool ice museum.

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The first ever caviar eating championship was held in Moscow in April, 20th. Everyone who wished to take part in it came to a restaurnat "the Apartment". 12 persons were chosen to eat as much caviar as they could for three minutes. They didn't have to stop till they ate half a litre of the expensive food. Alexander Valov, 49, was

announced the winner of the competition - he ate half a litre of caviar for 1 minute 26 seconds and got 10 thousand rubles (330 USD) and ... caviar as a prize. Others took the remaining caviar home as a consolation prize. That evening the participants ate caviar for 2 million rubles! (66 600 USD).

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It's not so hard to enter a vocational technical school today. No entrance exams, it's enough to present documents and choose a profession you like. They get senior secondary education and thus teenagers who can't enter higher education institutions can get skills of a profession they like, find a job and have decent earnings. As part of modernization of educational system for the years 2011-2015 they

plan to open a polytechnic secondary school in Tatarsk, the Novosibirsk region. It will have to level up professional education in the region. But in Kozino village, the Ust-Tarksky district, where former vocational school #75 is located, they do not like the idea. They are afraid that students will go to Tatarsk to study and the vocational school will close soon.

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High water has come to Mordovia.

Hundreds of people have been evacuated...

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Russians still do not feel confident when visit erotic shows. But who would

refuse to peep into the backstage work of unselfconscious beauties?

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Each April Taimyr has festive mood. In the regional centre they celebrate Heiro holiday or a reindeer day - holiday of the Sun. Right at this time light part of the day becomes longer behind the polar

circle turning into the whole light day. The sun doesn't set at all. The day of the Sun slowly became the day of deer breeders celebrated on April weekends in the villages of Taimyr.

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