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After the results were in, the true price of the doping scandal — as well as the questionable rigors that have brought us the Great Russian Rotational Revolution — became apparent.

“Great Russian Nutcracker” Moscow Ballet takes the stage in a filmed performance of the Tchaikovsky favorite.

Moscow Ballet’s “Great Russian Nutcracker,” now on its 27th North American tour, will make 144 stops, including Bethesda, Maryland, and Fairfax, Virginia.

Putin last month proposed replacing the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia Wikipedia with an electronic version of the Great Russian Encyclopaedia - the successor to the Soviet Union’s main encyclopedia.

The Moscow Ballet began as a pickup touring company composed of Bolshoi dancers, and it now makes frequent visits across the United States with its colorful, diplomatic “Great Russian Nutcracker.”