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1/ To cheer up the inhabitants of Mariupol and take their minds off having to live in a destroyed city with few functioning public services, Russia has sent them a circus with a troupe of performing beavers. ⬇️
2/ The "Typical Donetsk" Telegram channel reports that Mariupol's first circus since the start of the war opened today, 10 June, and is due to run until 20 August. It was opened by animal trainer Edgar Zapashny and the head of the Russian State Circus, Sergei Belyakov.
3/ Belyakov highlighted one of the circus's star acts – "the world's only attraction with trained beavers". The beavers jump hurdles (badly), swing on a trapeze and descend a slide.
4/ In the meantime, as the pro-Russian channel reports apparently without irony, children are begging on the streets of Donetsk city – a sign of how bad poverty has become in the region. There are circuses, but apparently not much bread to go with them. /end
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