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Photo credits:
1. Traders working at investment bank Otkrytiye. © Mikhail Fomichev, RIA Novosti
2. Photocells of a solar panel. © Petshakovskiy, RIA Novosti
3. Trader at the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX).(c) Alexey Kudenko, RIA Novosti
4. A laboratory at Pharmstandart-Leksredstva Co, Kursk. © Valeriy Melnikov, RIA Novosti
5. A girl at an ice cream festival in Moscow's Sokolniki Park. © Maxim Blinov, RIA Novosti
6. The Kamchatka river in Klyuchy village, Kamchatka. © Alexey Kudenko, RIA Novosti
7. A view of the mountain lake Mramornoye. © Sergey Anashkevich, RIA Novosti
8. A Pryanichnaya Masterskaya (Gingerbread Workshop) employee demonstrates their products. © Iliya Pitalev, RIA Novosti
9. The Total Literacy international literacy check campaign at the Novosibirsk State University. © Alexandr Kryazhev, RIA Novosti
10. The construction of the Golubye Dali interchange in Adler. © Mihail Mokrushin, RIA Novosti
11. A Lastochka train at the railway station platform in Sochi. © Mihail Mokrushin, RIA Novosti
12. Working at the hothouse complex of JSC Teplichnoye in the village of Sadovy, Sverdlov Region. © Pavel Lisitsyn, RIA Novosti
13. Filming a rehearsal of the Swan Lake ballet's 3D broadcast at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. © Igor Russak, RIA Novosti
14. A rehearsal of the Swan Lake ballet's 3D broadcast at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. © Igor Russak, RIA Novosti
15.The opening ceremony of the 24th Kinotavr open Russian film festival in Sochi. © Mihail Mokrushin, RIA Novosti
16. Pharmaceutical terminal Pharmat warehouse, Istra District. © Grigoriy Sisoev, RIA Novosti
17. Russian football player Ruslan Nigmatulin during the Torch Relay of the 2013 Summer Universiade in Moscow. © Vladimir Astapkovich, RIA Novosti
18. Gangnam Style flashmob at the main entrance of the Olimpiisky Sports Hall before a news conference by PSY. © Grigoriy Sisoev, RIA Novosti
19. Gangnam Style flashmob at the main entrance of the Olimpiisky Sports Hall before a news conference by PSY. © Grigoriy Sisoev, RIA Novosti
20. Russian players celebrating the team's victory in the 2012 World Hockey Championship's final match between Russia and Slovakia. © Alexey Filippov, RIA Novosti
Mama Queeny B. acting really BlueZee - In a Mood - J.Lee Hooker - performed by LetTheBelinov
VITALINA BELIN (QUEEN B.)
Actress, choreographer, vocalist, multistyle dance sketcher
Vitalina Belin(Queen B.) is a graduate of the prestigious State Academy of Theatrical Art (St.Petersburg, Russia). She has worked in multiple media: visual art, theater, dance, music and film. Also she has a unique natural gift - she is a ventriloquist.
She has toured extensively throughout Russia, Europe, United States. Queen B. has developed new characters and new aesthetic for the stage for over fifteen years. She has experiment with her work and has collaborated with an extensive range of artists, such as Wynton Marsalis, Vladimir Tsypin, Denise Perrier, Val Belin (King B.), A.Gerasimov, A.Kondakov, Sergio Brandao, Mike Ellis, Fred Catfish Alias; including actors R.Victiuck, M. Terehova, I. Smoktunovski, V. Zolotuchin, D. Nagiev, I. Grigoriev. Vitalina Belin (Queen B.) has also worked with choreographers M. Zamai, N. Baluhina, O.Goldridge, I. Malhasians, R. Ibragimova.
Vitalina Belin ( Queen B.) starred in many famous Shows: Dmitri Nagiev TV Show, Masterskaya Dryppe; plays- musicals: Koshkin Dom, Koniock- Gorbunock, Zolushcka- at the stage of BDT(Tovstonogov's Big Dramathic Theatre)and A. Raickin's Estrada Theatre; films: Ajuba - Black Prince (film director Shashi Capur), The Turn of the Century (film director K. Lopushanski).
Vitalina Belin (Queen B.) has participated in competitions and festivals of the highest
level (prize winner of the competition Under the Roofs of Petersburg- 95, and the winner
of the Grand- Prix at the international competition Vivat Russia - 2000).
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