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.

General manager of SAP company Peter Maier in Moscow,Russia.

Orthodox Easter in the village church of Eganovo village

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

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.`

Women`s boxing World Cup

`Russian Silhouette` Fashion Show.

Kaliningrad city of Russia (former Königsberg of Prussia). Nesselbeck hotel in Kaliningrad.