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Russian Winter Festival 2006 slideshow

1. Crowds fill Trafalgar Square
2. Ergyron – folk dance and song from Chukotka in the far north-east of Russia
3. Ergyron – a singer
4. Mazaika – band performing folk songs and Gypsy music
5. Malenkiy Jigit, a youth folk dance ensemble from Ossetia
6. Energetic dancing by Malenkiy Jigit
7. ‘Russian Silhouette’ fashion show model
8. Yarmarka – colourful  costumes
9. Yarmarka – some of the eight vocalists, eight dancers and six musicians
10. Folk artists Zolotoye Koltso (Golden Ring) – dancers in red
11. Zolotoye Koltso (Golden Ring) – dancers and instrumentalists
12. View of the stage and Nelson’s column
13. Mayor of London Ken Livingstone with Yuri Luzhkov, Mayor of Moscow
14. A ‘veteran’ – Eric Yates, a trustee of the Soviet Memorial Trust Fund
15. Soldiers of the Kremlin Guard
16. Crowds watching the performance
17. Snow starts to fall around the big screen
18. People in the Square enjoying the snow
19. DDT’s lead singer, Yuri Shevchuk
20. Brothers Grim
21. Ivan Kupala – a contemporary angle on traditional music
22. 'Happy New Year’ projected in Russian onto Nelson’s Column

All images © James O Jenkins.

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