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  • IMG_6466 IRAN. Zahedan. 2008. Shir Abad clinic. Afghan patient standing behind a gate before coming in for a medical examination. MSF runs three medical clinics in the poor neighbourhoods of Zahedan, a city located near the Pakistan and Afghan border. Most of the refugees arrived in Iran in the early 80's, fleeing the war broke out in Afghanistan with the invasion of ex Soviet Union.
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  • IMG_0013 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Novosibirsk. 2015. A Kirghiz man standing near his house. He lives with his wife and their five children in the downtown area of Novosibirsk. He works in the countryside collecting fruits and vegetables, his wife cleans and tidies up private houses. Caritas signed an agreement with local Policlinic to care people without health coverage. They have got water supply in the summer only, in the winter they are forced to go to Caritas. Their children tend to attend Caritas center and go to school. Novosibirsk, capital of Asiatic Russia, has a population of two million people. According to official statistic 18% of the population live in extreme poverty. Some children need psicological support to deal with family problems such as poverty and alcohol.
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  • A young nurse standing in the hallway at the ward for homeless in the hospital n. 9. Caritas staff and social workers take care for them once a week. They provide sanitation items, medical treatment and used clothes to homeless too. Homeless people are a marginalized group in Russia who are detested in society. They are very often subject to minor assaults, aggravated assaults and even homicide; most cases are commonly not prosecuted. Homeless live in the pipes of the community heating system, in tents and makeshift cardboard houses, at landfills or parks. Homelessness affects men, women, young and old, babies and children. Their lives are in constant jeopardy.
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  • IMG_0001 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Slavjanka. 2015. Adolescents standing in front of the Caritas Child Center “Hope”. Children and teens tend to attend several courses such as Russian language, behavior, ethic, cooking and theatre.<br />
Slavjanka is a small village about 160 km south of Omsk, in the county of Novowarschavka, near to the border with Kazakhstan. Half of adults have no jobs and have low paying casual jobs. The alcohol consumption grows with the lack of any prospects. Almost every family is touched with alcoholism. The adults and children feel completely out of place and have difficulties integrating. Some children need psychological support to deal with family problems such as poverty, domestic violence and alcohol.
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  • IMG 0654 GEORGIA. Tskhneti. 2007. The wife of the sick man is crying. Free health care extends only to diagnosis and visits to the area polyclinic for the poorest refugees and children, medicines have to be bought. For urgent cases entailing hospitalisation, the State covers 75% of the cost of operations and the patient must pay 25%, and here too these sums are beyond the economic means of the refugees, while 100% of health care costs have to be borne by the rest of the population.
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  • Children playing at home. Their mother is housewife, her husband works as a driver. A few years ago their house burned in a fire.
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  • IMG_0594_GEORGIA. Gurjaani. 2011. A boy of the local parish church during the harvest of grapes in the fruitful Alazani valley, in the region of Kakheti. Gurjaani is one of the most important centers for the production of wine in the country.
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  • IMG_0012 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Novosibirsk. 2015. A Kirghiz woman working in her greenhouse. She lives with her husband and their five daughters in a small wooden house. She cleans private houses and her husband works in the countryside collecting fruits and vegetables. Caritas signed an agreement with local Policlinic to care people without health coverage. They do not have water supply during the winter. Their daughters tend to attend Caritas center and go to school. According to official statistic 18% of the population live in extreme poverty. Some children need psicological support to deal with family problems such as poverty and alcohol.
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  • IMG 2060 GEORGIA. Tsqaltubo. 2007. Early in the morning the refugees try to sell their meagre vegetable and fruit produce in a courtyard. Their per capita income is of only 14 lari (7 euros) per month, which is below the minimum poverty level. In 1999 the government inaugurated the “New Approach” policy with the aim of creating conditions for the communities to become self-sufficient, via financial aid for setting up small economic activities, agriculture and livestock rearing.  Unfortunately, the economic development of these communities has ground to a halt because of a lack of funds and infrastructures.
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  • IMG 1898 GEORGIA. Kutaisi. 2007. Church of Saint Thecla. Portrait of members of the faithful during the Liturgy. Faith is one of the people’s most important values for the Georgians. Among the Christian communities of the Near East, Georgia is one of the most ancient, for in 327 Christianity was declared to be the official state religion.
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  • Children playing at the Caritas child center “Kristall”.About 20 russian catholic, orthodox and buddhist children (aged 5-16) tend to attend several courses such as Russian language to prepare public school, art-therapy, ethic, dancing, cooking and theatre. Some children need psicological support to deal with family problems such as poverty, domestic violence and alcohol. Twelve people tend to work for the Caritas center.
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  • Unemployed single mother, she currently lives with her two children at the Caritas shelter “St. Sophia”. She left her household because her mother could not look after them. Single mothers with children can stay for up to two years at the Caritas center. Caritas supports single moms and families in their effort to create a healthly environment for the development of children. The intention is to break the vicious cycle of helplessness and to keep families together. According to official statistic 18% of the population live in extreme poverty. 32% of all families are single mother households with one or more children whose situation is especially difficult.
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  • A patient with her daughter in the ward for mentally disabled women at Hospital n. 3. Two social workers provide used clothes and medicaments to 55 mentally disabled women. This building used to be a military facility during the former Czarist period.
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  • IMG_0030 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Omsk. 2015. Poor people receive used clothes provided by Caritas in cooperation with the social welfare offices. Caritas supports families with children and people in crisis situation in the city and in 32 counties within the province. The standard of living in Omsk is well below the surrounding provinces.
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  • IMG_0027 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Barnaul. 2015. Palina  (1988 b.) works as nurse at the Caritas Center. Two nurses provide health assistance for disabled, old, sick and poor people. Caritas signed an agreement with local Policlinic to care people without health coverage. Caritas social services provides sanitation items and medical treatment to poor, distributes medical equipment such as wheelchairs and crutches for the disabled, provides rehabilitation activities for people with special needs. Caritas center is close to the train station, in one of the troubled city suburbs but is active throughout the city.
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  • IMG_0026 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Jurga. 2015. A girl at the Child center “Happy kids”. Caritas opened the center ten years ago. About 20 russian catholic, orthodox and buddhist children (aged 5-16) tend to attend several courses such as Russian language to prepare public school, ethic, cooking and theatre. Two pedagogists and five social workers look after them, the social workers cooperate very closely with the public school. Some children need psicological support to deal with family problems such as poverty and alcohol. Some families live in a tiny room with three or four children. Caritas provides used clothes to the families too. Jurga is a small city with around 85,000 inhabitants, it is located in the Kuzbass region, along the Transiberian railroad, about 100 km from Tomsk. Main employer was a machine factory which was relocated here from during the II World War. When the factory closed tens of thousands lost their jobs. Without any alternative around 20,000 people left the city.
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  • IMG_0018 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Novosibirsk. 2015. Young catholic taking part the procession around the Cathedral of Transfiguration in the dowtown area during the 2nd Eucaristic Russian Catholic Congress that took place in June 2015. The Roman Catholic Church in Russia is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. According to the most recent figures in Annuario Pontificio, there are approximately 773,000 Catholics in Russia.
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  • Teens taking part Abracadabra party that took place in June 2015 for families and their children at the Caritas center. The life of many children consists of extreme poverty, unemployment, alcohol and drug addiction, neglect and violence due to excessive challenges of young parents and lack of financial support.
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  • Caritas nurse provides medical care to homeless people behind the railway station. Caritas provides food and medical care to homeless people. They receive a warm meal, clothing and medical care and are being helped in their social rehabilitation.
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  • Children playing in front of the History of Tomsk Museum, up on Resurrection Hill. About 40 children (aged 6-16) russian orthodox, catholics and muslims, attend the “ABC” child center, opened in 2000 by Caritas. They tend to visit museums, play, sing, attend several courses such as Russian language, ethic and theatre. Three pedagogists look after them. Their parents may be single, divorced or jobless. Poverty, alcohol and domestic violence are the problems that especially affect children. Caritas provides used clothes to the families too.
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  • Homeless people receive food behind the railway station provided by Caritas. Caritas provides food and medical care to homeless people. They receive a warm meal, clothing and medical care and are being helped in their social rehabilitation. Homeless people are a marginalized group in Russia who are detested in society. They are very often subject to minor assaults, aggravated assaults and even homicide; most cases are commonly not prosecuted. Homeless live in the pipes of the community heating system, in tents and makeshift cardboard houses, at landfills or parks. Homelessness affects men, women, young and old, babies and children. Their lives are in constant jeopardy. According to Lenin and Khrushchev policy, homeless, poor and disabled people would have to stay far away from ordinary people, the Soviet man had to be healthy, strong and brave.
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  • IMG 2039 GEORGIA. Tsqaltubo. 2007. A girl is making cakes in her flat. Most lodgings have no gas or drinking water supply, each apartment may house as many as three or four family groups. Prospects are better for young people than for the rest of the population, they have excellent vocational training and many of them go to school or university, but they have great difficulty in finding work, the unemployment rate among the refugees is very high;  the lack of better perspectives for the future has disoriented and demoralized them.
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  • The ward for homeless in the hospital n. 9. Caritas staff and social workers take care of them once a week. They provide sanitation items, medical treatment and used clothes to homeless too. Homeless people are a marginalized group in Russia who are detested in society. They are very often subject to minor assaults, aggravated assaults and even homicide; most cases are commonly not prosecuted. Homeless live in the pipes of the community heating system, in tents and makeshift cardboard houses, at landfills or parks. Homelessness affects men, women, young and old, babies and children. Their lives are in constant jeopardy.
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  • A teenage girl, 13 years-old, showing a medal won at a swimming race. She lives with her parents, three brothers and a sister in a house for rent. The family moved from Kazakistan, her father works as driver and her mother is housewife. Caritas supports families in their effort to create a healthly environment for the development of children. The intention is to break the vicious cycle of helplessness and to keep families together.
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  • Social workers provide food to homeless people behind the railway station. They receive a warm meal, clothing and medical care and are being helped in their social rehabilitation. Homeless people are a marginalized group in Russia who are detested in society. They are very often subject to minor assaults, aggravated assaults and even homicide; most cases are commonly not prosecuted. Homeless live in the pipes of the community heating system, in tents and makeshift cardboard houses, at landfills or parks. Homelessness affects men, women, young and old, babies and children. Their lives are in constant jeopardy. According to Lenin and Khrushchev policy, homeless, poor and disabled people would have to stay far away from ordinary people, the Soviet man had to be healthy, strong and brave.
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  • IMG_0019 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Omsk. Caritas social services provides sanitation items and medical treatment to poor, distributes medical equipment such as wheelchairs and crutches for the disabled, provides rehabilitation activities for people with special needs. The standard of living in Omsk is well below the surrounding provinces. Especially striking is the low life expectancy among men. Most of them die before they reach retirement.
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  • IMG_0016 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Barnaul. 2015. Caritas provides food to the homeless people behind the railway station. They receive a warm meal, clothing and medical care and are being helped in their social rehabilitation. Caritas center is an officially recognized social welfare organization since 1997.  It is close to the train station in one of the troubled city suburbs but is active throughout the city. Caritas signed an agreement with local Policlinic to take care for people without health coverage. Homeless people are a marginalized group in Russia who are detested in society. They are very often subject to minor assaults, aggravated assaults and even homicide; most cases are commonly not prosecuted. Homeless live in the pipes of the community heating system, in tents and makeshift cardboard houses, at landfills or parks. Some homeless may spend the night at shelter of the government. The alcohol and drug consumption grows with the lack of any prospects.
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  • IMG_0009 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Novosibirsk. 2015. Orphans in their room at St. Nicholaus Orphanage runs by “St. Elisabeth from Hungary” nuns. 20 children and adolescents (aged 3-18) live at the orphanage. Children and adolescents tend to attend the public school. This years, it should be forced to shut down according to Putin policy towards orphanages.The Russian families will have to look after orphans.
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  • IMG_0665_GEORGIA. Gurjaani. 2011. A boy of the local parish church during the harvest of grapes in the fruitful Alazani valley, in the region of Kakheti. Gurjaani is one of the most important centers for the production of wine in the country.
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  • Social workers provide food to homeless people behind the railway station. Caritas provides food and medical care to homeless people. They receive a warm meal, clothing and medical care and are being helped in their social rehabilitation. Homeless people are a marginalized group in Russia who are detested in society. They are very often subject to minor assaults, aggravated assaults and even homicide; most cases are commonly not prosecuted. Homeless live in the pipes of the community heating system, in tents and makeshift cardboard houses, at landfills or parks.
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  • IMG_0023 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Tomsk. 2015. Children at the “ABC” child center. They tend to visit museums, play, sing, attend several courses such as Russian language, ethic and theatre. Three  pedagogists look after them. Their parents may be single, divorced or jobless. Some children need psicological support to deal with family problems such as poverty, domestic violence and alcohol. Caritas provides used clothes to the families too.
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  • IMG_0022 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Schegarsk. 2015. Some people in the hallway at Schegarsk Internat, founded in 1950. Most of them can't walk. This Internat receives many of the most deformed babies soon after their birth. Many of disabled person are the awful legacy of  the nuclear plants in the region. Some 200 disabled persons stay at the Internat. Some of them have a little deformities, if they would have had a good education they could have had an ordinary life.  “The Little Arc” visiting service in  Schegarsk’s home for handicapped runs by Caritas since 1990. In Russia by burocratic reasons disabled person can not leave the Internats. Until very recently they would spend their live out in the Internat. From two-three years the politicians are talking about a “inclusion policy” to allow disabled persons to live in the society.These days “The Hidden World”, a NGO that collaborates with Caritas with social workers visit the Shegarsk Internat every forthnights. They provide used clothes and food to disabled persons and take care for them some day in the summer camps in the countryside.  Most of the relatives and parents of disabled persons who live at the Internat do not want to come and see their sons. According to Lenin and Khrushchev policy, homeless, poor and disabled people would have to stay far away from ordinary people, the Soviet man had to be healthy, strong and brave. There are eight Internats run by the Government in the Kuzbass region. There are Internats in every Russian region. Schegarsk Internat is about 100 km from Tomsk.
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  • IMG_0008 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Omsk 2015. Early every morning, Father Danieli celebrates Mass in the chapel at the Caritas center. According to the most recent figures in Annuario Pontificio, there are approximately 773,000 Catholics in Russia. The Roman Catholic Church in Russia is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
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  • IMG_0028 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Schegarsk. 2015. Some people in the hallway at Shegarski Internat. Most of them can't walk. They spend the days on the floor. This Internat receives many of the most deformed babies soon after their birth. Many of disabled person are the awful legacy of  the nuclear plants in the region. Some of them have a little deformities, if they would have had a good education they could have had an ordinary life. In Russia by burocratic reasons disabled person can not leave the Internats. Until very recently they would spend their live out in the Internat. From two-three years the politicians are talking about a “inclusion policy” to allow disabled persons to live in the society. These days “The Hidden World”, a NGO that collaborates with Caritas, provides used clothes and food to disabled persons at the Internat and take care for them some day in the summer camps in the countryside. Social workers tend to visit the Internat every forthnights. Most of the relatives and parents of disabled persons who live at the Internat do not want to come and see their sons. Schegarsk Internat is about 100 km from Tomsk.There are eight Internats run by the Government in the Kuzbass region.
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  • IMG_0020 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Jurga.  2015. A girl at the Caritas Child center “Happy kids”. Caritas opened  the center ten years ago. About 20 russian catholic, orthodox and buddhist children (aged 5-16) tend to attend several courses such as Russian language to prepare public school, ethic, cooking and theatre. Two pedagogists and five social workers look after them, they cooperate very closely with the public school. Some children need psicological support to deal with family problems such as poverty and alcohol. Some families live in a tiny room with three or four children. Caritas provides used clothes to the families too. Jurga is a small city with around 85,000 inhabitants, it is located in the Kuzbass region, along the transiberian railroad, about 100 km from Tomsk.
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  • A social worker who works for the Protestant Church, at the street dispensary for the homeless people behind the railway station. Three social workers who work for the Protestant Church help Caritas looking after homeless. Homeless receive a warm meal, clothing and medical care and are being helped in their social rehabilitation. Caritas signed an agreement with local Policlinic to take care for people without health coverage. Homeless people are a marginalized group in Russia who are detested in society. They are very often subject to minor assaults, aggravated assaults and even homicide; most cases are commonly not prosecuted. Homeless live in the pipes of the community heating system, in tents and makeshift cardboard houses, at landfills or parks. Homelessness affects men, women, young and old, babies and children. Their lives are in constant jeopardy. According to Lenin and Khrushchev policy, homeless, poor and disabled people would have to stay far away from ordinary people, the Soviet man had to be healthy, strong and brave.
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  • A boy in his flat. His mother has lost her husband in Chechen war. His sister went to town to look for some job a year and a half ago. He has two nieces. They live together in run-down flat without heating and water supply. In the winter they can not use the stove because it is forbidden to use it in a multi-storey-building. The village Slavjanka is 160 km south of Omsk in the county of Novowarschavka, close to the border with Kazakhstan. Half of the adults have no jobs and have low paying casual jobs. The alcohol consumption grows with the lack of any prospects. Almost every family is touched with alcoholism. Heating systems and running water have not been working for years because most of the families cannot afford the associated costs. There are a lot of cheap, empty, run down apartments. For a couple of years now families with debts are being relocated from Omsk into these apartments. The adults and children feel completely out of place and have difficulties integrating. Some children need psicological support to deal with family problems such as poverty, domestic violence and alcohol.
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  • IMG_0006 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Omsk. 2015. Poor people receive food provided by Caritas. Caritas provides food to the poor families in cooperation with the social welfare offices and supports families with children and people in crisis situation in the city and in 32 counties within the province. The city of Omsk was founded in 1716 as a fort and center for ostracized citizens. Michail Dostojewski was the most famous of the exiled dissidents. The city grew with the expansion of the Siberian railroad. The industry almost completely collapsed in the nineties. The trade and services industries are the only sectors that offer new jobs. The standard of living in Omsk is well below the surrounding provinces. Especially striking is the low life expectancy among men. Most of them die before they reach retirement.
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  • IMG_0004 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Novosibirsk. 2015. Unemployed single mother coming from Uzbekistan. She currently lives with her two children at the Caritas mother child shelter “St. Sophia”. She was studying to become a nurse. She was not able to finish school. Single mothers with children can stay for up to two years at the Caritas center. Caritas supports single moms and families in their effort to create a healthly environment for the development of children. The intention is to break the vicious cycle of helplessness and to keep families together. According to official statistic 18% of the population live in extreme poverty. 32% of all families are single mother households with one or more children whose situation is especially difficult.
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  • IMG_6395 IRAN. Zahedan. 2008. Karim Abad clinic. Patients and MSF’s staff waiting outside the pharmacy the opening of the clinic. The clinic runs 4 days a week as the visit-time is from 07:30 a.m. to 01:30 p.m.
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  • IMG_021 GEORGIA. Tbilisi. 2009. Collective center. Georgian refugee coming back to his flat. The collective centers are decaying building and don’t have the supply of gas, heating and potable water, every flat can host up to three-four households. The rate of unemployment is very high, after 16 years living in the limbo, the lack of better perspectives for their future has left them bewildered and discouraged. They have a per capita income of only 22 per month, about 11 euro, which is below the minimum poverty level.
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  • IMG_0005 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Novosibirsk. 2015. Orphan at St Nicholaus Orphanage runs by “St. Elisabeth from Hungary” nuns. 20 children and adolescents (aged 3-18) stay at the orphanage. Children and adolescents tend to attend the public school. This years it should be forced to shut down according to Putin policy towards orphanages.The Russian families will have to look after orphans.
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  • IMG_1020065_GEORGIA. Tsinamdzguriantkari. 2011. An internal displaced person standing in front of the collective center. She was forced to flee from Tskhinvali, the capital of the breakaway province of South Ossetia, after the war with Russia in 2008. Refugees continue to face harsh living conditions with little hope of ever going home.
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  • RUSSIA. Moscow. 2004. Woman standing with leaflets near the Red Square.
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  • RUSSIA. Sergiev Posad. 2004. National guard standing in the outskirt.
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