2009: The Year In Photos
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Members of the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi (Ours) throw shoes at a basketball hoop bearing a picture of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in Moscow on April 1, 2009. (AFP)
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FRANCE, Strasbourg : An area of the Passerelle Mimram pedestrian bridge which connects Kehl, Germany to Strasbourg, France is pictured on April 4, 2009 during the NATO summit. The NATO summit, which marks the organization's 60th anniversary, took place on April 3 and 4, 2009 in Strasbourg and the neighboring German cities of Baden-Baden and Kehl. (AFP)
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U.S. President Barack Obama gives his speach beside the statue of the first Czechoslovak President Tomas Garrigue Masaryk at Hradcansky square in Prague on April 5, 2009 . President Barack Obama pledged that the US would lead the quest for a world without nuclear weapons, denouncing "fatalism" over nuclear weapons proliferation.
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Moldovans wave a flag at a rally near a government building in Chisinau on April 8, 2009. Moldova's president warned that authorities would use force to prevent a repeat of the violent riots that shook the ex-Soviet country after a disputed election victory by his Communist Party.
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A protester shouts slogans during an opposition rally in front of the Parliament building inTbilisi, Georgia, on 8 April 2009. Georgian opposition leaders expected to bring tens of thousands of people onto the streets on 09 April 2009 for mass protests to press President Mikhail Saakashvili to step down and call new elections. (epa)
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Former Russia's richest businessman and head of Yukos oil company Mikhail Khodorkovsky is escorted to the Khamovnichesky district court in Moscow, Russia, on April 10 2009. Lawsuits seeking to recover a total of 170 billion rubles (about 3.7 billion Euro) have been brought as part of the new criminal case against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and former Menatep CEO Platon Lebedev. (epa)
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Iranian snipers in full camouflage take part in the Army Day parade in Tehran on April 18, 2009. Iranian President hailed his country's armed forces as the "guarantor" of regional security, during a low-profile parade marking the Islamic republic's Army Day
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Pakistani soldiers stand guard on top of a mountain overlooking the Swat valley at Banai Baba Ziarat area in northwest Pakistan on May 22, 2009. The army took control of the mountain used by the Taliban as a training camp on May 20, according to the army.
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Activists of the Ukrainian ultra-nationalist organization UNSO march to mark Heroes Day in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on May 24, 2009. Ukraine commemorates on May 24 those who lost their lives for the independence of the country. (AFP)
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Palestinian men listen to the U.S. President Barack Obama as he delivers a speech at Cairo University, at a coffee shop in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on June 4, 2009. The Palestinian Authority hailed as a "good beginning" U.S.President Barack Obama's speech to the Muslim world in which he reiterated his support of a Palestinian state.
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A Iranian riot-police officer sprays tear-gas at a supporter of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Musavi attacking him with a police stick during riots in Tehran on June 13, 2009.
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Supporters of opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mussavi (depicted in the poster they hold), attend a renewed protest demonstrations in the street of Tehran, Iran, 18 June 2009. The demonstrators, mainly supporters of Iranian opposition leader, Mir-Hossein Mussavi, protested against alleged fraud in last week's presidential election. (epa)
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A screen grab taken on June 21, 2009 from a video posted on YouTube allegedly shows Iranian men trying to help a wounded woman named "Neda" after getting shot in the chest during a protest in Tehran on June 20, 2009. At least 10 people were killed in the latest unrest to shake Tehran, state television said on June 21, as the opposition stepped up its defiance of Iran's Islamic rulers over the disputed election.
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A poster from Iranian fans adorns a makeshift shrine and memorial to music legend Michael Jackson, outside the Jackson family compound in Encino, California on June 29, 2009. Michael Jackson, "the King of Pop," died June 25 at the age of 50. (AFP)
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China -- Muslim ethnic Uyghurs carry a woman who fainted during a protest in Urumqi in China's far west Xinjiang provinc - TOP2009
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Russia -- U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev shake hands after delivering speeches at the Russian-American business summit, Moscow, 07Jul2009 - ITAR-TASS 129: MOSCOW, RUSSIA. JULY 7, 2009. U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev shake hands after delivering speeches at the Russian-American business summit, organised by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and the United States Chamber of Commerce. TOP2009
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Russia--Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (R) listens to US President Barack Obama delivering a speech at the graduation ceremony of the New Economic School in Moscow, 07Jul2009 - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (R) listens to US President Barack Obama delivering a speech at the graduation ceremony of the New Economic School in Moscow on July 7, 2009. Obama said today the United States wanted a strong, prosperous but also democratic Russia, as he set out his vision of the US relationship with its former Cold-War era foe. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB TOP2009
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Ukraine -- Metropolitan Volodymyr (L) and Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill during liturgy in Pechresk Lavra in K - UKRAINE, Kiev : Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill (R) and Ukrainian Metropolitan Volodymyr (L) cross themselves during liturgy in Kiev Pechresk Lavra in Kiev on July 28, 2009. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill arrived in Ukraine on Monday for a ten-day visit
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Russia -- Police detain protesters during the 2009 March of Dissent in Moscow, 31Jul2009 - Caption: ITAR-TASS 122: MOSCOW, RUSSIA. JULY 31, 2009. Opposition protester being detained by the police during the 2009 March of Those Who Disagree, at Moscow's Triumfalnaya Square. (Photo ITAR-TASS /
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Russia -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin swims the butterfly during his vacation outside the town of Kyzyl in Southern Siberia, 03Aug2009 - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin swims the butterfly during his vacation outside the town of Kyzyl in Southern Siberia on August 3, 2009. AFP PHOTO / RIA-NOVOSTI / ALEXEY DRUZHININ
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