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Rafting Tournament on Sex Dolls in North Russia

Created: 20.08.2004 16:01 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:41 MSK

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Leningrad Region will host a rafting tournament on inflatable rubber dolls on Saturday.

The Bubble Baba Challenge tournament will take place in Russia for the second time. Anyone over 16, and of either sex, is allowed to take part in the competition. The participants will have to swim in the complicated Losevsky rapids of the Vuoksa river near St. Petersburg.

The first tournament took place last year, sponsored by a number of Russian sex shops.

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