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Bare-chested participants run at the “Real men's race” to celebrate the Fatherland's Defender Day in Minsk, Belarus, 23 February 2020. About 2,000 men took part in the competition, local media report. The 23 February is celebrated as the Defender of the Fatherland Day in Russia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan marking the date in 1918 when the first mass draft into the Red Army took place in Moscow and Petrograd during the country's Civil War and war against the German Emperor. (Photo by Tatyana Zenkovich/EPA/EFE)
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