The semi-final voting of the Professional Jury of the Golden Turtle photo contest was completed.
The finalists of the Golden Turtle XIII photo contest are as follows:
Dmitry Arkhipov
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Russia
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Sumanta Basu
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India
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Giuseppe Bonali
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Italy
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Songda Cai
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China
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Marc Casanovas Felix
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Spain
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Chantal Cenker
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Austria
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Sanz Adriana Claudia
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Argentina
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Parry Craig
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Australia
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Pietro Cremone
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Italy
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Csaba Daroczi
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Hungary
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Anup Deodhar
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India
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Marina Deriglazova
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Russia
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Michal Dobes
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Czech Republic
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Andres Luis Dominguez Blanco
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Spain
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Michel d'Oultremont
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Belgium
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Marcio Antonio Esteves Cabral
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Brasil
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Aleksandr Fedosov
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Russia
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Nataliya Fedosova
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Russia
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Isaac Fernandez Galisteo
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Spain
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Joaquin Figueredo Gonzalez
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Spain
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Giovanni Frescura
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Italy
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David Frutos Egea
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Spain
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Arthur Gergardt
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Ukraine
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Nikolay Gernet
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Russia
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Viraj Arun Ghaisas
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India
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Massimo Giorgetta
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Italy
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Manuel Enrique Gonzalez Carmona
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Spain
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Svetlana Gorbatykh
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Russia
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Vitaly Gorshkov
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Russia
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Marc Graf
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Austria
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Jose Manuel Grandio
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Spain
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Alessandro Grasso
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Italy
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David Greyo
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Switzerland
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Andreas Hemb
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Sweden
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Javier Herranz Casellas
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Spain
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Dirk Hoogenstein
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Netherlands
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Svetlana Ivanenko
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Russia
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Behzad Jahangirzadeh Khiavi
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Iran
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Arnfinn Johansen
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Norway
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Aranya Karighattam
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USA
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Sergey Karpukhin
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Russia
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Tibor Kercz
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Hungary
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Kai Kolodziej
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Austria
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Tamas Koncz-Bisztricz
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Hungary
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MdZakirul Mazed Konok
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Bangladesh
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Mikhail Korostelev
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Russia
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Daniil Korzhonov
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Russia
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Fedor Lashkov
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Russia
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Florian Ledoux
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France
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Antonio Leiva Sanchez
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Spain
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Tibor Litauszki
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Hungary
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Nathan Livartowski
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France
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Davide Lombroso
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Italy
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Kirsi MacKenzie
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Finland
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Marco Maggesi
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Italy
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Chaideer Mahyuddin
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Indonesia
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Neha Manoj
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Kenya
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Gennadiy Meshcheryakov
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Russia
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Tamara Morozova
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Russia
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Kallol Mukherjee
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India
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Valtteri Mulkahainen
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Finland
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Viktoriya Narchuk
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Russia
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Ivan Naumenko
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Russia
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Egor Nikiforov
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Russia
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Victor Ortega
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Spain
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Diez Oscar
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Spain
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Yelena Pakhalyuk
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Russia
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Agorastos Papatsanis
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Greece
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Haresh Dhirajlal Pateel
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India
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Jeremy Patton
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France
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Aleksandr Perevozov
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Russia
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Jose Pesquero
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Spain
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Mateusz Piesiak
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Poland
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Juan Pablo Plaza Pozo
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Spain
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Dario Podesta
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Argentina
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Andrey Podkorytov
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Russia
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Scott Portelli
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Australia
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Imre Potyo
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Hungary
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Pratik Pradhan
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India
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Andrey Prutenskiy
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Russia
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Hira Punjabi
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India
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Dani Salgado
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Spain
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Yevhen Samuchenko
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Ukraine
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Suarez Gonzalez Samuel
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Spain
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Aneesh Sankarankutty
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India
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Sergey Savvi
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Russia
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Andrey Shpatak
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Russia
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Roman Shteynbrekher
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Russia
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Zhou Shunhua
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China
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Martin Siering
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Germany
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Yuriy Sorokin
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Russia
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Giedrius Stakauskas
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United Kingdom
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Mario Suarez Porras
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Spain
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Geza Attila Szabo
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Hungary
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Sergio Tapia
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Spain
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Marc Tisseau
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France
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Domenico Tripodi
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Italy
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Sergey Uryadnikov
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Russia
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Thomas Vijayan
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Canada
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Alexey Volkov
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Russia
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Anton Voronin
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Russia
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Ian Wade
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United Kingdom
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Christian Wappl
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Austria
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Marc Weber
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France
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Paweł Wrona
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Poland
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Fred Zacek
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Estonia
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Evalotta Zacek
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Estonia
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Valeriya Zvereva
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Russia
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"Passing scores" of the Photo contest are (the highest and lowest scores for each work are not included in the final score):
Animal Behaviour - 25
The Portrait of the Animal - 22
Animal in the Environment - 23
The underwater world - 27
Microcosm - 24
Landscape - 25
Humans and nature - 24
New technologies in wildlife photography - 25
Art and Nature's Image - 20
Reserved Russia - 18
Nature through the eyes of youth - 20
Nature through the eyes of children - 19