This past weekend , a traditional pre-Christmas Santa run took place in Tokyo (Tokyo Prefecture. Greater Tokyo Area. Kantō Region) JAPAN. Some 500 Tokyo residents dressed as Santa Claus participated in a 2.5-kilometre charity run at a local park.
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Vitor Martins from São Paulo (São Paulo State. Southeast Region) BRAZIL has more than 90 percent of his body covered in tattoos, some of them in reference to Christmas. However, that doesn’t prevent him from working as Santa Claus.
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One of Berlin’s entertainment agencies hosted an event with a Santa Claus “flying” 98 metres (322 feet) above a hotel in the German capital.
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Metropolitan Cathedral of the Nativity of Saint Mary in Milano (Milano Province. Lombardia Region) ITALY is the fourth-largest in Europe, after St Peter Basilica in the Vatican, St Paul Cathedral in London, and Seville Cathedral. It’s the largest Gothic cathedral and the third-largest church in the world.
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Last weekend, model and television personality Holly Madison dressed as Santa Claus; she appeared at a street performance in Las Vegas (Clark County. Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise MSA) NV USA
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A traditional Christmas parade for four-legged Santas was held in Loughborough (Leicestershire. East Midlands Region) ENGLAND UK.
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In São Paulo (São Paulo State. Southeast Region) BRAZIL, a man wearing a Santa Claus costume rode the metro to celebrate the Christmas season.
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11 December 2014
Sputnik International
Voices from Russia 
6 July 2013. Sergei Yolkin’s World. Events of the Week in Cartoons: 3-7 June 2013
Tags: cartoons, editorial cartoons, Hugh Laurie, Moscow, Moscow Metro, political commentary, politics, Russia, Russian, Russian culture, Sergei Sobyanin, Sergei Yolkin, State Kremlin Palace, Subway, Underground
Events of the Week in Cartoons: 3-7 June 2013
Sergei Yolkin
2013
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Sergei Yolkin sketches out the events of the week: Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin’s resignation, an emergency in the Moscow Metro, and Hugh Laurie presented a performance in Moscow at the State Kremlin Palace.
7 June 2013
Sergei Yolkin
RIA-Novosti
http://ria.ru/caricature/20130607/942133713.html