When rumors began swirling that authorities in the central Russian city of Nizhnevartovsk intended to ban yoga, practitioners of the ancient Indian discipline thought it was a prank. It soon turned out Nizhnevartovsk officials were dead serious.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Russian yoga ban leaves officials in awkward pose
Medvedev's Girls, members of an Internet community supporting then Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev, practice yoga at the Moscow's Red Square, on Sept. 22, 2011.
