December 31, 2013

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Laser lights shoot from towers during a New Year's Eve countdown to 2014 held at the Great Wall of China in Beijing, China.

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Stefan Kraft of Austria soars through the air during the men's large hill team ski jumping final at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun, Sweden, Feb. 28, 2015.

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Russia's opposition supporters march in memory of murdered Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov in central Moscow . The 55-year-old former first deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin was shot in the back several times just before midnight on Feb. 27 as he walked across a bridge a stone's throw from the Kremlin walls.

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Russian soldiers patrol the Battle of Stalingrad memorial in Volgograd, Russia.