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This picture taken on August 31, 2008 shows a Russian girl (C) of the Old-believer faith having her hair braided on her wedding day in Staraya, near Saint Petersburg. Old-believers are a minority group of Russian Orthodox believers who rejected the church reforms of the the 1600's. AFP PHOTO / MIKHAIL MORDASOV (Photo credit should read MIKHAIL MORDASOV/AFP/Getty Images)

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