November 03, 2009. Celebrating Halloween in St.Petersburg
 

October 30, 2009. Moscow, Lubyanskaya square. Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions of the Stalinist regime. Pictured: an old russian woman with a portrait of her father who was repressed by Stalin regime.The picture is taken near the Solovetsky Stone monument to the victimos of political repressions
 

October 28, 2009. Millionaire Fair Moscow 2009 exhibition for rich in Moscow. Pictured: ladies partying at Millionaire Fair
 

October 27, 2009. Larisa Vasilenko, President of charity organization `Return Home`, who visited this prison says: `It`s a hell on the earth`. Ognenny Ostrov is a small lake island in the central Russian Vologda region which hosts St. Cyril Monastery, converted into a high-security prison for the death-penalty inmates. The Russian Orthodox Monastery was founded on this island in 1517. Following the October Revolution in 1917 it was converted into a prison to hold “enemies of the revolution”. During the 1930s and 1940s it functioned as a penal colony for the victims of the purges of Joseph Stalin. After Stalin`s death in 1953 it was turned into a regular prison for highly dangerous criminals who committed most dangerous crimes : serial killers, rapists... . Finally in 1997 it became a prison dedicated solely to the prisoners serving life-time and death-penalty sentences. There are around 200 inmates incarcerated in the prison, which is formally known as prison No. OE 256/5 The Ognenny Ostrov island is located about 400 kilometers north of Moscow on Lake Novozero Pictured: a prisoner in his cell demonstrates the art piece made by him :a painting of naked woman
 

October 27, 2009. Floating russian steam bath in Baskir region of Russia
 

October 26, 2009. Millionaire Fair Moscow 2009 exhibition for rich in Moscow
 

October 23, 2009. Russia`s Communist Party activists held a protest action with red banners in central Moscow to protest against alleged election violations. Communists protested against alleged fraud in the October 11 local elections, which the ruling pro-Kremlin United Russia party won by a landslide. Pictured: communist party activist in mask
 

October 22, 2009. Manufacture of the Tapestries with Portrait of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at Uzor Tapestry Manufacture in Vyritsa settlement of Leningrad region turned to be a very profitable business for textile manufacturers. Pictured: a woman worker of Uzor tapestry manufacture with a tapestry portrait of President Dmitry Medvedev
 

October 22, 2009. Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev giving the interview in Moscow
 

October 21, 2009. Mental clinic in Izmail city of Odessa region in Ukraine. Pictured: patients of the mental clinic
 

October 19, 2009. Airbus À-380 landed at Domodedovo airport of Moscow
 

October 09, 2009. International doll show `Doll-Salon` in Moscow
 

October 09, 2009. Amnesty International activists protest death penalty in Belarus : `No Death Penalty in Belarus` ; `Save the Right for Life`
 

October 06, 2009. Flood in St.Petersburg ,Russia. St. Petersburg is often threatened by floods as most of its downtown territory is located just several feet above sea level.
 

September 30, 2009. Chris Jones , National Geographic magazine editor in chief at the meeting with Moscow University students