Let's remember the important news about the COVID-19 pandemic and the social events that have taken place since 1 March.
Take a moment to soak up some of the most important and striking photos of March, from the Novosibirsk Region Bodybuilding Championship and the Russian military "Makeup Under Camouflage" beauty pageant to a masqueraded folk theatre in Georgia and the Tank Biathlon competition in Russia.
As of 31 March, more than 800,000 people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 38,700 fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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Participants of the "Sevastopol Beauty 2020" beauty pageant during the finals on stage in the Sevastopol Centre for Culture and Arts.
© Sputnik / Konstantin Mikhalchevskiy
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Russian President Vladimir Putin in a biosecurity suit while visiting a hospital in Communarka on 24 March.
© Sputnik / Alexei Druzhinin
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People near the Maxim Gorky Moscow Art Academic Theatre. Due to the danger of the spread of the coronavirus, performances in Moscow theatres have been cancelled.
© Sputnik / Vitaliy Belousov
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Participants in the beauty pageant for female military personnel of the Strategic Missile Forces "Makeup Under Camouflage" in Pereslavl-Zalessky.
© Sputnik / Ilya Pitalev
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Participants of the Berikaoba celebration in Georgia. Berikaoba is an improvised masqueraded folk theatre in the country, stemming from a pagan festivity for fertility and rebirth.
© Sputnik / Vladimir Umikashvili
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Siberian huskies from the Roev Ruchey flora and fauna team after a 10-kilometre race in preparation for sledding competitions in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
© Sputnik / Ilya Naymushin
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Participants of the fitness bikini nomination before performing in the Novosibirsk Region Bodybuilding Championship in Novosibirsk, Russia.
© Sputnik / Alexandr Kryazhev
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A new monument to Marshal Zhukov is installed on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow.
© Sputnik / Sergey Pyatakov
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Elizaveta Shanaeva and David Narizhny (Russia) perform an ice dancing programme during a training session before the 2020 Junior World Figure Skating Championships in Tallinn.
© Sputnik / Vladimir Pesnya
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An employee of the greenhouse complex "Green House" at work in the Republic of Adygea.
© Sputnik / Vitaly Timkiv
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Participants of the fitness bikini nomination before performing in the Novosibirsk Region Bodybuilding Championship in Novosibirsk, Russia.
© Sputnik / Aleksander Kryazhev
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People wearing plague doctor masks walk on a street amid an outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Lviv, Ukraine.
© Sputnik / Stringer
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A crowd of refugees on the border of Turkey and Greece.
© Sputnik / Burcu Okutan
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A mannequin in a lace mask is displayed in a shop window in Tbilisi, Georgia.
© Sputnik / Stringer
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Zenit's Tim Abromaitis and CSKA's Joel Bolomboy struggle for a ball during a Euroleague basketball match between CSKA Moscow and Zenit St. Petersburg in Moscow, Russia.
© Sputnik / Alexey Filippov
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People at a bus stop during snowfall in Podolsk, Russia.
© Sputnik / Ramil Sitdikov
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Russian President Vladimir Putin with local residents after visiting the children's clinic at Clinical Hospital No. 4 in Ivanovo.
© Sputnik / Aleksey Nikolskyi
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Stewardesses descend an Airbus A350-900 passenger aircraft of the Aeroflot airline at Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow.
© Sputnik / Ramil Sitdikov
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The crew of a T-72 tank during a competition among the best tank crews of the Eastern Military District "Tank Biathlon" at the Borzya Novaya training ground in the Trans-Baikal Territory.
© Sputnik / Evgeny Yepanchintsev
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A reindeer in free pasture in the tundra in the vicinity of the village of Lovozero in the Murmansk Region.
© Sputnik / Pavel Lvov
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People run wearing fins during the celebration of Maslenitsa on a lake in a south-western housing estate in Novosibirsk.
© Sputnik / Alexandr Kryazhev
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Burlesque actress Vutrica performs the number “Bandit” at the Ladies of Burlesque cabaret show at the Magnus Locus restaurant in Moscow.
© Sputnik / Vladimir Pesnya
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Construction of the Infectious Disease Hospital in Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug.
© Sputnik / Maksim Mishin
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A girl in a medical mask stands at a crossing on Tverskaya Street, Moscow.
© Sputnik / Alexey Maishev
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People in biological protection suits at special train No. 906/905 Kiev - Moscow - Kiev. The train transported Ukrainian citizens out of Moscow due to the coronavirus situation.
© Sputnik / Stringer
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Participants in the women's Beauty Run in Krasnodar.
© Sputnik / Vitaly Timkiv
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A woman in an underground passage in Moscow, Russia.
© Sputnik / Alexey Maishev
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