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In Photos: Russia Marks Soviet WWII Victory With No Tanks

The scaled-back event went ahead with no military hardware, in a first since 2008.
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In Photos: Chernobyl, 40 Years On

The largest nuclear disaster in history sent political shockwaves across the U.S.S.R.
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Back to the USSR: When Russia Took a Wrong Turn

This collection of photos from the MT archives captures what everyday life looked like in Russia under Yeltsin and in the early years of Putin.
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In Photos: 250 Years of the Bolshoi Theatre

One of the world’s most celebrated opera and ballet stages has surviving fire, revolution, world wars, the Soviet collapse and the rise of Vladimir Putin...
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