In a playground outside a shabby warren of cinder-block apartments in north Moscow, children play on swings and climbing bars as Stepan Zotov instructs a squad of teens in knife-throwing nearby.
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Teenagers holding the Russian national flag take a selfie during a rally marking the one-year anniversary of Crimea voting to leave Ukraine and join the Russian state in central Sevastopol on March 16, 2015.