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.

September 2012. Vladivostok,Russia. Pictured: The Zelyony Ugol (“Green Corner”)used car market in Vladivostok city of Russia. The Zelyony Ugol car market deals with Japanese second hand cars.

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

February 18,2013.Ekaterinburg,Russia. The sample found by Ural Federal University scientists at Lake Chebarkul. (The meteorite was therefore named Chebarkul).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: Chebarkul meteorite sample is under research at the labaratory of the Ural Federal University in Ekaterinburg.

At the Maternity Hospital in St.Petersburg

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.`

Bubble Baba (Babe)Challenge fun swimming competition between men near St.Petersburg. During this competition men are floating down the river with a bubble (inflatable rubber)woman in order to come first to the finish to be the winner of this funny competition.

Women`s hat parade

India. Rajasthan Camel Festival.he Camel Festival is an event organized in Bikaner by the Department of Tourism, Art and Culture, Government of Rajasthan, every year in the month of January. Desert region`s Folk dances and Music, add on to what is otherwise an exclusive camel affair. A festival when the ships of the desert are seen at their best. Camels fascinate tourists from all over the world with their movements, charm and grace. A spectacle of unusual camel performances: camel races, camel dances, and the bumpy, neck shaking camel rides.Pictured: participants of the festival.