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.

The Moscow City Business Centre in Moscow (Moskva city). The Moscow International Business Centre (MIBC) is an ambitious engineering project in the centre of Moscow. The site is on an old urban area near the river embankment. The goal of the project is to create a new business district within the city.

Women`s running competition on spike heel shoes in St.Petersburg.

February 26,2013.Moscow,Russia. Chebarkul meteorite is the proposed name for the fragments of the asteroid that entered the atmosphere of Earth and caused the Russian meteor event on February 15, 2013. Pictured: Vernatsky Institut of Geochemistry, Moscow. Chebarkul meteorite fragments found at Chebarkul lake.

Tubercular dispensary.

Russian Air Force long-haul strategic bomber air-base in Engels city. Entrance gates to the air-base

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 heavy weight boxer Nikolay Valuev

Women`s hat parade

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