Disaster-hit Japanese teenagers in Russian Far East

Disaster-hit Japanese teenagers in Russian Far East

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Junior and senior high school students from the disaster-hit Japanese prefectures of Iwate and Miyagi pose for group photos after arriving at Vladivostok airport in the Russian Far East on Aug. 18, 2011. Their trip was made possible after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's wife, Svetlana, proposed that children from areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami be invited to Russia.

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