Back to school never looked so… violent.
Kids across Russia went back to school on Monday. This is how one Moscow school welcomed them back.
So did a school in the Siberian city of Tyumen.
Via Facebook: sergey.ignatyev.1
Which would be funny and strange, but on the first day of school nine years ago, Islamist rebels took more than 1,000 people hostage at a school in the southern city of Beslan. A subsequent raid killed 334 people, including 186 children. There are no official ceremonies to mark the tragedy.