June 12,2013. Moscow,Russia. Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced in Kirov to five years in jail for theft on Thursday,July 18, it is an unexpectedly tough punishment which his supporters said proved President Vladimir Putin was a dictator ruling by repression. Pictured: Anti-Putin rally in Moscow. One of the leaders of Russian opposition Alexei Navalny with his wife Julia (L) participating in the rally.

January 29,2013. Moscow,Russia. Pictured: First capsule hotel Sleepbox Hotel Tverskya with fifty windowless pods opens in central Moscow.

Beauty Contest `Chechen Beauty` (Miss Chechnya) in Grozny

November 06,2012. Pictured: Stephen Elop, the chief executive officer of Nokia Corporation presents smartphone Nokia Lumia 920 in Moscow,Russia.

Tubercular dispensary.

Girl`s Cadet School in Moscow - girls-cadets observing Kalashnikov submachine gun

Members of a ultra nationalistic radical Russian Orthodox group speared a poster of pop star Madonna on Monday and demanded a ban on her show, in which she stages a mock crucifixion. The Orthodox Church has urged believers to stay away from the show, in which Madonna sings from a crucifix, wearing a crown of thorns, describing it as `blasphemy.`

Russian tennis player Dmitry Tursunov put Russia into the Davis Cup final after holding off american Andy Roddick in Moscow on Sunday, September 24.

Russian Fashion Week.

Nadymsky region of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug,Russia.The Nentsy (also known as the Yurak) are one of five Samoyedic peoples, which also include the Entsy (Yenisei), Nganasany (Tavgi), Sel`kupy, and Kamas. Although many aspects of their lives have changed, the Nentsy still rely on their traditional way of life,which is hunting, reindeer herding, and fishing. Pictured: daily life of the nentsy.