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SKS from around the world today (updated regularly)...
« on: November 05, 2007, 08:34:01 PM »


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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao reviews honor guard during a welcome ceremony on his arrival in Moscow, Monday, Nov. 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)



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US Defense Secretary Robert Gates meets with Guo Boxiong, vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission (CMC), in Beijing, China, on Monday, November 5, 2007. (Li Tao/Xinhua/WpN)



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A soldier of the Hungarian honour guard holds a flag of the 1956 revolution in front of the 'Tomb of the Unknown soldier' on Budapest's Heroes Square, 04 November 2007, as part of celebrations marking the 51st anniversary of the day Red Army Soviet tanks crushed the Hungarian uprising. AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEK (Photo credit should read ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/***** Images)
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Re: SKS in Honor Guard ceromonies today...
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2007, 10:03:42 PM »
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Re: SKS from around the world today (updated)...
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2007, 01:40:20 PM »


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Pakistani policemen stand outside a court during an anti-Musharraf protest in Lahore, 06 November 2007.

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Re: SKS from around the world today (updated)...
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2007, 02:52:33 PM »
^ What is that photographer trying to do? Get an upskirt picture?


As for those other ones.....Hungarian Honor Guard eh? I want one. :lol:
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Re: SKS from around the world today (updated)...
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2007, 08:21:28 PM »


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A participants of a military parade of 1941 takes part in a wreath- laying ceremony prior a historic parade in Moscow, 07 November 2007. The historic parade on 07 November is devoted to the real military parade of 1941 in the days of the heroic defense of Moscow from German troops. Participants of this parade departed from the Red square straight to the front line outside the city

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Re: SKS from around the world today (updated)...
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2007, 02:53:58 PM »


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India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reviews the honour guard on his arrival in Moscow's Vnukovo airport, November 11, 2007. Manmohan Singh arrived in Moscow on a two-day official visit.



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German President Horst Koehler inspects the guard of honour at the memorial for the victims of the Algerian struggle for independence in Algiers, Algeria, 12 November 2007. Koehler, who is currently on a seven-day-trip to North Africa, also visits Mauritania and Malta



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Visiting Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein reviews an honour guard during a welcoming ceremony held 09 November 2007 in Hanoi. Sein arrived here for a two-day official visit. AFP PHOTO/HOANG DINH Nam (Photo credit should read HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/***** Images)







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Piłsudski Square, Unknown Soldier Tomb, Warsaw, Poland, Nov 9-11, 2007. Ceremony of posthumous promotion of officers from Polish Armed Forces, Police, Correction Service and Border Guard -victims of Katyń massacre. More than 15.000 Polish POWs were murdered by NKVD



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11.11.2007: Polish independence day.



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Re: SKS from around the world today (updated)...
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2007, 02:54:52 PM »
Note the Algerian Chromed Honor Guard SKS's!

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Re: SKS from around the world today (updated)...
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2007, 06:14:30 PM »
Interesting uniforms in Myanmar. Maybe some kind of 'too cute to shoot' theory. Great photos.
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Re: SKS from around the world today (updated)...
« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2007, 06:24:40 PM »
I wonder if the Algerian chrome jobs came from China.


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Re: SKS from around the world today (updated)...
« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2007, 07:19:16 PM »
Great pics.

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Re: SKS from around the world today (updated)...
« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2007, 07:34:10 PM »
Very Nice Indeed!
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Re: SKS from around the world today (updated)...
« Reply #11 on: November 13, 2007, 03:11:57 PM »
Interesting uniforms in Myanmar. Maybe some kind of 'too cute to shoot' theory. Great photos.

I think those are Vietnamese.

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Visiting Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein reviews an honour guard during a welcoming ceremony held 09 November 2007 in Hanoi. Sein arrived here for a two-day official visit. AFP PHOTO/HOANG DINH Nam (Photo credit should read HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/***** Images)
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Re: SKS from around the world today (updated)...
« Reply #12 on: November 13, 2007, 05:12:42 PM »
Ah, you are right.
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Re: SKS from around the world today (updated)...
« Reply #13 on: November 13, 2007, 06:48:10 PM »
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Re: SKS from around the world today (updated)...
« Reply #14 on: November 13, 2007, 11:28:32 PM »
where can i get one of those flags?

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