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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Moscow 29 October 2007.Russian Dolls, including one of the incumbent Russian President Vladimir  Putin on a stall close to Moscow's Red Square.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Moscow 29 October 2007.Sightseers near St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square, which was built in the 16th century to celebrate Ivan the Terrible's capture of the Tartar stronghold of Kazan.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Moscow 29 October 2007.Sightseers near St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square, which was built in the 16th century to celebrate Ivan the Terrible's capture of the Tartar stronghold of Kazan.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Kazan 2 November 2007.Young female students in the library of the Islamic University in Kazan, the capital of the oil rich region of Tartarstan. Statistics show that the Russian Muslims population could overtake the Christian Orthodox in the next thirty years.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Kazan 2 November 2007.Wealthy Russian Newly weds celebrate outside the walls of the old Kremlin in Kazan, the capital of the oil rich region of Tartarstan. Statistics show that the Russian Muslims population could overtake the Christian Orthodox in the next thirty years.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Kazan 2 November 2007.Russian prison officers after a visit to the Kul Sharif Mosque in Kazan, the capital of the oil rich region of Tartarstan. Statistics show that the Russian Muslims population could overtake the Christian Orthodox in the next thirty years.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Kazan 2 November 2007.Muslim Russians worshipping at the Kul Sharif Mosque in Kazan, the capital of the oil rich region of Tartarstan. Statistics show that the Russian Muslims population could overtake the Christian Orthodox in the next thirty years.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Kazan 2 November 2007.Wealthy Russian Newly weds celebrate outside the walls of the old Kremlin in Kazan, the capital of the oil rich region of Tartarstan. Statistics show that the Russian Muslims population could overtake the Christian Orthodox in the next thirty years.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Kazan 2 November 2007.Massive construction work is underway in Kazan, the capital of the oil rich region of Tartarstan, giving the city the felling of a "boom town" but many of the poor and elderly like they've been left behind. Older, more traditional style homes and building are either left to rot or condemned and bought up by property developers who make huge profits from forced evictions of tenants from state owned properties.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Samara 5 November 2007.A Soyuz Space Rocket in the centre of the City of Samara, a reminder of the city's involvement in Russia's Space Programme..  Samara lies on the eastern bank of the river Volga and not only hosted the beginning of the Russian Civil war but was also the "second capital" during WWII and Stalin's bunker was situated here. Nowadays apart from being Oil rich, it also has one of the highest rates of AIDS in the country.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Yekaterinburg 7 November 2007."Patients" at the  "Clinic of the Yekaterinburg City without Drugs" founded  by Yevgeny Roizman, suspected ex-Russian Mafia and member of the Duma (Parliament) , where addicts are handcuffed to their beds for the first 27 days of their rehabilitation..Yekaterinburg was the site of the slaughter by Bolsheviks revolutionaries of the Tsar Nicholas and his family in 1918 and in the 1990's suffered from open Mafia warfare on it's streets but is now a thriving city once again.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Yekaterinburg 7 November 2007."Patients" at the  "Clinic of the Yekaterinburg City without Drugs" founded  by Yevgeny Roizman, suspected ex-Russian Mafia and member of the Duma (Parliament) , where addicts are handcuffed to their beds for the first 27 days of their rehabilitation..Yekaterinburg was the site of the slaughter by Bolsheviks revolutionaries of the Tsar Nicholas and his family in 1918 and in the 1990's suffered from open Mafia warfare on it's streets but is now a thriving city once again.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Yekaterinburg 7 November 2007.Soviet era poster promoting abstainment from alcohol at the offices of Yevgeny Roizman, suspected ex-Russian Mafia and member of the Duma (Parliament) who founded the "Clinic of the Yekaterinburg City without Drugs" where addicts are handcuffed to their beds for the first 27 days of their rehabilitation..Yekaterinburg was the site of the slaughter by Bolsheviks revolutionaries of the Tsar Nicholas and his family in 1918 and in the 1990's suffered from open Mafia warfare on it's streets but is now a thriving city once again.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Yekaterinburg 7 November 2007."Patients" at the  "Clinic of the Yekaterinburg City without Drugs" founded  by Yevgeny Roizman, suspected ex-Russian Mafia and member of the Duma (Parliament) , where addicts are handcuffed to their beds for the first 27 days of their rehabilitation..Yekaterinburg was the site of the slaughter by Bolsheviks revolutionaries of the Tsar Nicholas and his family in 1918 and in the 1990's suffered from open Mafia warfare on it's streets but is now a thriving city once again.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Yekaterinburg 7 November 2007.Pic shows Sergei "Boxer" Kolesnichenko director of the  "Clinic of the Yekaterinburg City without Drugs" founded  by Yevgeny Roizman, suspected ex-Russian Mafia and member of the Duma (Parliament) , where addicts are handcuffed to their beds for the first 27 days of their rehabilitation..Yekaterinburg was the site of the slaughter by Bolsheviks revolutionaries of the Tsar Nicholas and his family in 1918 and in the 1990's suffered from open Mafia warfare on it's streets but is now a thriving city once again.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Yekaterinburg 7 November 2007.Portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Orthodox paraphernalia at the  "Clinic of the Yekaterinburg City without Drugs" founded  by Yevgeny Roizman, suspected ex-Russian Mafia and member of the Duma (Parliament) , where addicts are handcuffed to their beds for the first 27 days of their rehabilitation..Yekaterinburg was the site of the slaughter by Bolsheviks revolutionaries of the Tsar Nicholas and his family in 1918 and in the 1990's suffered from open Mafia warfare on it's streets but is now a thriving city once again.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Yekaterinburg 7 November 2007."Patients" at the  "Clinic of the Yekaterinburg City without Drugs" founded  by Yevgeny Roizman, suspected ex-Russian Mafia and member of the Duma (Parliament) , where addicts are handcuffed to their beds for the first 27 days of their rehabilitation..Yekaterinburg was the site of the slaughter by Bolsheviks revolutionaries of the Tsar Nicholas and his family in 1918 and in the 1990's suffered from open Mafia warfare on it's streets but is now a thriving city once again.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Yekaterinburg 7 November 2007.Die-hard Communists celebrate the "Day of the Great October Revolution" once a public holiday, but now disregarded by the new regime..  Yekaterinburg was the site of the slaughter by Bolsheviks revolutionaries of the Tsar Nicholas and his family in 1918 and in the 1990's suffered from open Mafia warfare on it's streets but is now a thriving city once again.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Yekaterinburg 7 November 2007.Die-hard Communists celebrate the "Day of the Great October Revolution" once a public holiday, but now disregarded by the new regime..  Yekaterinburg was the site of the slaughter by Bolsheviks revolutionaries of the Tsar Nicholas and his family in 1918 and in the 1990's suffered from open Mafia warfare on it's streets but is now a thriving city once again.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Yekaterinburg 7 November 2007.Die-hard Communists celebrate the "Day of the Great October Revolution" once a public holiday, but now disregarded by the new regime..  Yekaterinburg was the site of the slaughter by Bolsheviks revolutionaries of the Tsar Nicholas and his family in 1918 and in the 1990's suffered from open Mafia warfare on it's streets but is now a thriving city once again.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Yekaterinburg 8 November 2007.The grave Mikhail Kuchin one of the many gang members who lost their lives during the Mafia wars in Yekaterinburg, seen here clutching the keys to his Mercedes.. In 1990's post Soviet Russia the city suffered from open Mafia warfare on it's streets but is now a thriving city once again, and young professionals can enjoy a life comparable to that in the west ..
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Nizhny Tagil 9 November 2007.A WWII vintage T-34 rests on a plinth outside the offices of a Tank Factory in the Industrial town of Nizhny Tagil 150km from Yekaterinburg in the Urals.The city has one of the highest rates of pollution the country.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Nizhny Tagil 9 November 2007.A pro Putin "United Russia Party " poster emblazoned on  a factory wall in the Industrial town of Nizhny Tagil 150km from Yekaterinburg in the Urals, an area rich minerals, which has one of the highest rates of pollution the country.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Nizhny Tagil 9 November 2007.(left) 55 yr old Lyndmilla Krasikova who gave up her job due to throat cancer walks with her grandson "Lyosha" and neighbour Valentina in the Industrial town of Nizhny Tagil 150km from Yekaterinburg in the Urals.The city has one of the highest rates of pollution the country.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Nizhny Tagil 9 November 2007.The Industrial town of Nizhny Tagil 150km from Yekaterinburg in the Urals, an area rich minerals, which has one of the highest rates of pollution the country.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Chusovoy 11 November 2007.The infamous labour camp Perm-36, about 110km from the City of Perm in the Urals was a Gulag for Political prisoners from 1946 until it's closure 1988. It is now a museum and memorial to those that suffered political repression under the Soviet regime.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Chusovoy 11 November 2007.Schoolchildren visiting Perm-36 about 110km from the City of Perm in the Urals was a Gulag for Political prisoners from 1946 until it's closure 1988. It is now a museum and memorial to those that suffered political repression under the Soviet regime.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Tyumen 12 November 2007. Scenes in the Siberian city Tyumen, the Oil rich region of the same name is the second richest in the Russian Federation after Moscow.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Novosibirsk 15  November 2007.A Book kiosk in one of the Metro station's of Siberia's largest city of Novosibirsk.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Novosibirsk 15  November 2007.The Lenin statue standing in front of the Opera and Ballet Theatre in Siberia's largest city of Novosibirsk.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Novosibirsk 15  November 2007.People disembarking from a train early morning in Siberia's largest city of Novosibirsk.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Yakutsk 22 November 2007.Ethnic Yakutian pupils studying in a class at the Republican Lyceum in the city of Yakutsk in the Sakha Republic in Outer Far Eastern Russia. The school is based in the state university and offers the regions indigenous people the opportunity to take classes in their own language instead of Russian..Yakutsk is one of Russia's remotest cities which lies on a permafrost that never thaws, buildings therefore have to be built on stilts to prevent the structures heat from melting the foundations, causing subsidence.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Yakutsk 22 November 2007.Crossing a frozen river in the city of Yakutsk in the Sakha Republic in Outer Far Eastern Russia. .  Yakutsk is one of Russia's remotest cities which lies on a permafrost that never thaws, buildings therefore have to be built on stilts to prevent the structures heat from melting the foundations, causing subsidence.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Yakutsk 22 November 2007.In the village of Khomustakh outside of Yakutsk, in the Outer Far East of Russia , lives 53 yr old Cattle Farmer Tatiana Bereyovskina with her daughter Lyena and grandchildren Sergei and Sardana.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Yakutsk 22 November 2007.A snowbound Lada car in the village of Khomustakh outside of Yakutsk, in the Outer Far East of Russia .
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Irkutsk 19-20 November 2007.A central market in the city of Irkutsk , eastern Siberia's trade and administrative centre,which lies just west of Lake Baikal, was founded in 1651 as a Cossack Garrison and is now a thriving post soviet city.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Irkutsk 19-20 November 2007.Fresh fish for sale including the local "Omu" in the central market in the city of Irkutsk , eastern Siberia's trade and administrative centre,which lies just west of Lake Baikal, was founded in 1651 as a Cossack Garrison and is now a thriving post soviet city.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Ulan Ude 21 November 2007.The City of Ulan Ude , east of Lake Baikal and just north of the Mongolian border, and home to the worlds largest Lenin head which is in the main square. The indigenous population which stands at about 30 percent are the Buryats, a mongol people, and Buddhist Datsan temples are beginning to sprout up around the city again.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Ulan Ude 21 November 2007.The City of Ulan Ude , east of Lake Baikal and just north of the Mongolian border, and home to the worlds largest Lenin head which is in the main square. The indigenous population which stands at about 30 percent are the Buryats, a mongol people, and Buddhist Datsan temples are beginning to sprout up around the city again.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Ulan Ude 21 November 2007.The City of Ulan Ude , east of Lake Baikal and just north of the Mongolian border, and home to the worlds largest Lenin head which is in the main square. The indigenous population which stands at about 30 percent are the Buryats, a mongol people, and Buddhist Datsan temples are beginning to sprout up around the city again.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Ulan Ude - Khabarovsk  22 November 2007.A woman's face peers through the window of a " Rossiya" Trans Siberian railway carriage.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Chinese Immigrants working in the "Ali" market in the city of Khabarovsk in Far Eastern Russia  which is only 70 kms from, the Chinese border..
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..A "Khrushchevka" apartment block in the centre of the city of Khabarovsk in Far Eastern Russia .
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Vladivostok, Russia 25 November 2007.The City of Vladivostok in Far Eastern Russia, which is home to Russia's Pacific Fleet and was a closed city until 1992.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Vladivostok, Russia 25 November 2007.Russian sailors walking along the sea-front promenade in the City of Vladivostok in Far Eastern Russia, which is home to Russia's Pacific Fleet and was a closed city until 1992.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Vladivostok, Russia 25 November 2007.Chinese on the streets of Vladivostok in Far Eastern Russia, which is home to Russia's Pacific Fleet and was a closed city until 1992.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Vladivostok, Russia 25 November 2007.A market in a disused stadium with stalls mainly owned by Chinese immigrants in the City of Vladivostok in Far Eastern Russia, which is home to Russia's Pacific Fleet and was a closed city until 1992.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Vladivostok, Russia 25 November 2007.Street scenes in Vladivostok in Far Eastern Russia, which is home to Russia's Pacific Fleet and was a closed city until 1992.
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