A handout picture taken during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic torch relay on October 19, 2013, and released by the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee shows torchbearer Dmitry Vedmedyev rises his torch with the Olympic flame in the ancient Russian city of Yaroslavl, 245 km (152 miles) northeast of Moscow. Russian torchbearers has started last week the history’s longest Olympic torch relay ahead of February’s Winter Games in Sochi, which will take the flame across the country through all 83 of its regions, including extreme locales such as Chukotka, the remote region in Russia’s Far East, the turbulent North Caucasus, and even Russia’s European exclave Kaliningrad. AFP PHOTO / SOCHI 2014 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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