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  2. Superstition in Russia - Wikipedia

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    Russia lacks some of the superstitions Westerners find commonplace. Most Russians are not particularly concerned with the number 13, [citation needed] opening umbrellas indoors [citation needed] or walking under ladders. [citation needed] Archaically though, the number 13 might have been considered a "devil's number". This is because it could ...

  3. List of birds of Russia - Wikipedia

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    The white-eyes are small and mostly undistinguished, their plumage above being generally some dull colour like greenish-olive, but some species have a white or bright yellow throat, breast or lower parts, and several have buff flanks. As their name suggests, many species have a white ring around each eye. There are 2 species which occur in Russia.

  4. Supernatural beings in Slavic religion - Wikipedia

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    They are described as beautiful, eternally young, dressed in white, with eyes flashing like thunders, and provided with wings, and blonde hair. They live in the clouds, in mountain woods or in the waters. They are well-disposed towards men, and can turn themselves into horses, wolves, snakes, falcons and swans.

  5. Ethnic groups in Russia - Wikipedia

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    Russia, as the largest country in the world, has great ethnic diversity.It is a multinational state and home to over 190 ethnic groups countrywide. According to the population census at the end of 2021, more than 147.1 million people lived in Russia, which is 4.3 million more than in the 2010 census, or 3.03%.

  6. Eye color - Wikipedia

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    The incidence of blue eyes continues to decline among American children. [64] Of Slovenes, 56% have blue/green eyes. [65] In a series of 221 photographs of Spanish subjects, 16.3% of the subjects were determined to have blue-gray eyes. [46]

  7. Russians - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, the already existing biologo-genetic studies have made all hypotheses about the mixing of the Russians with non-Slavic ethnic groups or their "non-Slavism" obsolete or pseudoscientific. At the same time, the long-standing identification of the Northern Russian and Southern Russian ethnographic groups by ethnologists was confirmed.

  8. Despite Western sanctions and the war in Ukraine, Russia's most affluent cities have seen a boom in economic growth, with modern infrastructure, digital services, and cheap mobile data usage ...

  9. Glasses - Wikipedia

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    Anaglyph 3D glasses have a different colored filter for each eye, typically red and blue or red and green. A polarized 3D system on the other hand uses polarized filters. Polarized 3D glasses allow for color 3D, while the red-blue lenses produce an image with distorted coloration. An active shutter 3D system uses electronic shutters.