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Chuwashia: Imams performs praying in Bulgar city, 17Aug2009 - Chuwashia: Imams performs praying in Bulgar city, 17Aug2009
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Ingushetia -- Volunteers carry a victim at a site of an explosion of a police compound in Nazran, 17Aug2009 - RUSSIAN FEDERATION, Nazran : Volunteers carry a dead body at a site of explosion of a police compound in Nazran on August 17, 2009. A truck packed with explosives rammed through the gates Monday of a police compound in southern Russia and exploded in an attack that killed at least 16 people and wounded dozens
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Russia -- Russian emergency rescuers work at the scene of an accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in Cheryomushky, 19Aug2009 - Russian emergency rescuers work at the scene of an accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in Cheryomushky on August 19, 2009. Rescuers insisted they had not given up hope for 62 workers still missing two days after a flood engulfed a Siberian hydroelectric power station in the latest calamity to hit the Russian energy industry. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER NEMENOV
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Afghanistan -- A girl displays her finger marked with indelible ink after casting her vote at a polling station in Kabul, 20Aug2009 - AFGHANISTAN, Kabul : An Afghan girl displays her finger marked with indelible ink after casting her vote at a polling station in Kabul on August 20, 2009. Afghans voted to elect a president for just the second time in their war-torn history as a massive security clampdown swung into action to prevent threatened Taliban attacks derailing the ballot.
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