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.

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

January 09,2013.St.Petersburg,Russia. Pictured: Steve Jobs Memorial opened in St.Petersburg,Russia.The memorial was opened in the campus of the St. Petersburg National Research University for Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics.

Tubercular dispensary.

Reconstruction of the battle of lake Peipus.

Hard rock group `Lordi` in Moscow.

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.

The winner of `Supermodel of the World 2006` contest - Belarussian schoolgirl Ekaterina Domankova(17 years old) at home in Minsk (Belarus).

Franz Josef Land (also Franz Joseph Land or Francis Joseph`s Land). Franz Josef Land is an archipelago located in the far north of Russia. It is found in the Arctic Ocean north of Novaya Zemlya and east of Svalbard, and is administered by Arkhangelsk Oblast of Russia. Pictured: monument to Nikolai Chudotvorets (Wonderer-Worker)and a chapel (back) on Alexandra Island, one of 191 ice-covered islands of Franz Joseph Land.