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RT @Russia: Today 🇷🇺 #Russia's Altai Republic marks the Day of #SnowLeopard aka #Irbis! It was established to raise public awareness about… — PolitiTweet.org

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🚌⚡ Check out #Russia's response to #ClimateChange: the #KAMAZ electric #bus, aka #Tesla for the city commute 🏁 It may not feature the #LudicrousMode (yet?), but it gets the job done while keeping #Moscow's air than much cleaner. Take a ride when you #VisitRussia next time! 🇷🇺 https://t.co/dEdoGMVdo2 — PolitiTweet.org

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✈️ #OTD in 1913 the Russky Vityaz (Russian Knight), the world's first four-engine #aircraft, took its maiden #flight. Designed by #Russian #aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky, the machine was so innovative that many people did not believe it could even fly. #famoUSrussians https://t.co/zKaoxzxKxM — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Russia: Today 🇷🇺 #Russia's Altai Republic marks the Day of #SnowLeopard aka #Irbis! It was established to raise public awareness about… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RuRailways: Steam trains started production at St. Petersburg's Alexandrovsky plant in 1845. When the first railroad between Moscow and… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @medinskiy_vr: Продолжение моей лекции «Война и мир в мае 1945» для студентов Дипломатической академии и молодых дипломатов МИД России с… — PolitiTweet.org

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🎞️ Soviet animated psychological & psychedelic parable 🦔 #HedgehogInTheFog by award-winning artist Yuri Norstein has long become a cult classic. #DidYouKnow that on 26 May 2003 it was named 🏆 World's Best Animation by top Japanese cartoonists? ▶️https://t.co/CbFieCR4eu https://t.co/DQIJq3Ocjr — PolitiTweet.org

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Today 🇷🇺 #Russia's Altai Republic marks the Day of #SnowLeopard aka #Irbis! It was established to raise public awareness about the challenges this 🐆 gorgeous species faces. There are some 5 thousand adult animals left in the wild. 🙏 We do our best to save those living in Russia https://t.co/qfQ0Q29QDb — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @russiabeyond: Good morning from the city where two great #Russian rivers meet! Can you guess the city and the rivers? 🤔 📷 Andrei Puga… — PolitiTweet.org

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🔕 May 25 is the day of The Last Bell in #Russian schools. This ceremony honors pupils who are about to leave the #school, just after all studies are finished. The usual dress code is classic school uniform or formal dress. This year, however, things are a slightly... different. https://t.co/YUe7Weblo3 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Russia: Today one of 🇷🇺 #Russia's oldest cities - #Yaroslavl – turns 1⃣0⃣1⃣0⃣! It was founded by Grand Prince Yaroslav the Wise in 1010… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Russia: 🇷🇺🚆 #Russia comes 1⃣st in overall cargo turnover (2.6 trillion tonnes/km) & 3⃣rd in sheer volume of railway-transported goods (… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Russia: Today one of 🇷🇺 #Russia's oldest cities - #Yaroslavl – turns 1⃣0⃣1⃣0⃣! It was founded by Grand Prince Yaroslav the Wise in 1010… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Russia: 🇷🇺🚆 #Russia comes 1⃣st in overall cargo turnover (2.6 trillion tonnes/km) & 3⃣rd in sheer volume of railway-transported goods (… — PolitiTweet.org

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🏨 #OTD in 1957 the grand opening of the Hotel #Ukraina in the #Moscow city centre took place. With 1,026 rooms and 34 stories, it was the largest #hotel in #Europe 🌃 The 198 m tall structure was the second tallest of the neoclassical group of skyscrapers called 'seven sisters.' https://t.co/1Tys07Si93 — PolitiTweet.org

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📺 #OTD in 1966 Beware of the Car, a #Soviet crime #comedy #film directed by Eldar Ryazanov, was released. The plot evolves around Yury Detochkin, a humble insurance agent, stealing cars from corrupt officials in a Robin Hood way🔗 Watch w/ Eng. subtitles: https://t.co/nqOYtOj5XD https://t.co/M8TT50a0EC — PolitiTweet.org

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🇷🇺🚆 #Russia comes 1⃣st in overall cargo turnover (2.6 trillion tonnes/km) & 3⃣rd in sheer volume of railway-transported goods (1.3 billion tonnes), according to @uic data. Congratulations @RuRailways! #Russia - 🚄 connecting 🌍🌏 #Europe and #Asia https://t.co/1fDJJpJ4tq — PolitiTweet.org

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Today one of 🇷🇺 #Russia's oldest cities - #Yaroslavl – turns 1⃣0⃣1⃣0⃣! It was founded by Grand Prince Yaroslav the Wise in 1010. Historic part of the city is a #WorldHeritageSite, part of #GoldenRing tourist route. 🥳 Official anniversary celebrations to take place in September https://t.co/qDPLLcdS0u — PolitiTweet.org

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🚀 #OTD in 1931 #Soviet #cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Georgy Grechko was born 🌌 On December 20, 1977 he made the first #spacewalk in the Orlan #space suit, upgraded models of which are used to this day 🪐 A minor #planet 3148 Grechko is named after him 🔭 https://t.co/hsq4BMSTO1 — PolitiTweet.org

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#OTD The charismatic #Soviet actor Oleg Dal' was born in 1941. He acted in more than 50🎞️movies, 📺TV-films & 🎭perfomances, from classics of drama to fairy tales & adventures. He was equally good at playing characters from Lermontov's novel, #Shakespeare's tragedy or war films. https://t.co/OB7fOfXXZe — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @siberian_times: Volcanic sand, first flowers and Dmitry the cat of the Sikhote-Alin nature reserve in the Far East of Russia in picture… — PolitiTweet.org

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📕 #OTD in 1905 #Russian novelist, winner of the 1965 #Nobel Prize in #Literature Mikhail Sholokhov was born. He is known for writing about life of Don #Cossacks during the #Russian Revolution, primarily in his most famous novel, And Quiet Flows the Don 🔗 https://t.co/JWeO8qFQ3q https://t.co/gEXhcv43TG — PolitiTweet.org

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#OTD On May 24, 1551, the fortress of #Sviyazhsk was founded on an island in the 🌊#Volga River. ⚔️It became a military base of the #Russian army during the siege of #Kazan by 👑 Ivan the Terrible. ⛪️ Dormition Cathedral and Monastery added to @UNESCO World Heritage List. https://t.co/BbuutoGBBE — PolitiTweet.org

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#OTD 🎨 On May 24, 1830, Aleksey #Savrasov - #Russian remarkable landscape painter and originator of lyrical landscape painting - was born. 🖼 The most popular painting by the artist ‘The Rooks Have Returned (1871)’ was painted painted near Ipatiev Monastery in #Kostroma. https://t.co/XKf47I12ql — PolitiTweet.org

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🔈✍️Joseph #Brodsky: 🗨️The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. 📚📘📗#OTD The great poet, essayist, translator & the 1987 🏅#Nobel Laureate for #Literature was born in 1940. #famoUSrussian https://t.co/kigf3Zs380 — PolitiTweet.org

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🛳120 years ago - on May 24, 1900 - 🕐at 11:15 a.m. under 🎉artillery salute was launched the 1️⃣st rank cruiser ‘#Aurora’. 🌊Legendary symbol of #October Revolution is now veteran of #Russian Navy: she took part in Russo-Japanese War, #WWI, defended #Leningrad during #WWII. https://t.co/Pufdktfa1o — PolitiTweet.org

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🕯📖Today the #Day of #Slavic Writing and #Culture is celebrated in @Russia. 📚More than 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ years ago the Holy Brothers #Cyril and #Methodius created the first alphabet for Slavs. #Cyrillic alphabet became basis for many languages: #Russian, #Bulgarian, #Serbian & others. https://t.co/psQLvcJd9D — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Russia: 🐢🚀 Today is #WorldTurtleDay! #DidYouKnow ❓ In 1968 Soviet Zond-5 spacecraft took 2 Russian tortoises for a flyby of the #Moon -… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Russia: ♟️ One of the best chess players in history, Soviet-Russian Chess Grandmaster, 12th World Chess Champion (1975-85), Anatoly Kar… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Russia: ❄️Winter is coming... to southern 🇷🇺Russia in late May😱. 📸Enjoy the spectacular photos of unseasonable heavy snowfall in #Adyge… — PolitiTweet.org