Pictured: photo portraits of Ludmila Putina - wife of russian president Putin young and today(r)and her husband Vladimir Putin (l) in a book `Powerful University Graduates`. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila announced their divorce on Thursday, June 06,2013 after nearly 30 years of marriage.

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

Religious ceremony on the Day of Slavonic Culture in Moscow

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 army combat mountain conditions training in Krasnodar region of Russia which is very close to the Northen Caucasus (Chechnya, Georgia,Osetia,Abkhazia).

Tatoo festival in St.Petersburg.

Aquabike Championship of Russia.

Women`s hat parade

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.