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Russia Celebrates National Unity Day

People playing musical instruments during a march marking Russia's National Unity Day on Tverskaya Ulitsa, in Moscow. Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS
People take part in a march marking Russia's National Unity Day on Tverskaya Ulitsa, in Moscow. Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS
A man in a straw hat takes part in a march marking Russia's National Unity Day on Korabelnaya Naberezhnaya, in Vladivostok. Yuri Smityuk / TASS
People take part in a march marking Russia's National Unity Day on Tverskaya Ulitsa, in Moscow. Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS
People take part in a march marking Russia's National Unity Day in Omsk. Dmitry Feoktistov / TASS
People take part in a march marking Russia's National Unity Day on Tverskaya Ulitsa, in Moscow. Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS
People take part in a march marking Russia's National Unity Day on Tverskaya Ulitsa, in Novosibirsk. Kirill Kukhmar / TASS
People take part in a march marking Russia's National Unity Day on Tverskaya Ulitsa, in Novosibirsk. Kirill Kukhmar / TASS

Russia marks National Unity Day on Nov. 4 to celebrate the defeat of Polish invaders in 1612. 

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