Moscow, Russia, 28/10/2011. A woman watching the gala reopening of the Bolshoi Theatre on a giant video screen while standing on the plinth of a statue of Karl Marx with the inscription “Workers of the world unite”. The theatre had been closed since 2005 for reconstruction work that cost some $700 million.
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Moscow, Russia, 28/10/2011.
A woman watching the gala reopening of the Bolshoi Theatre on a giant video screen while standing on the plinth of a statue of Karl Marx with the inscription “Workers of the world unite”. The theatre had been closed since 2005 for reconstruction work that cost some $700 million.

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