haas - brown hare - lepus europaeus

Hares are larger, longer-eared, and longer-legged than rabbits. They are adapted to temperate open country, are strictly herbivorous and eat grasses and herbs during the summer months but change to feeding on twigs, bark and the buds of young trees in winter, making it a pest to orchard farmers.
Normally shy animals, hares change their behaviour in spring, when they can be seen in broad daylight chasing one another around meadows. This behaviour is called "march madness" and it appears to be competition between males to attain dominance and hence more access to breeding females.
During this spring frenzy, hares can be seen "boxing". This is where hares strike one another with their paws. For a long time it had been thought that this was more inter-male competition, but closer observation has revealed that it is usually a female hitting a male, either to show that she is not yet quite ready to mate or as a test of his determination.

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Also his known like rusak (заяц-русак)