September 04, 2009. President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko visiting Ukraine-based aircraft manufacturing and services company Antonov Design Bureau
 

September 04, 2009. Russian Prime-Minister Vladimir Putin at the meeting with Prime-Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko while visiting Poland
 

September 04, 2009. Russian Prime-Minister Vladimir Putin at the meeting with Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk
 

September 03, 2009. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has published documents revealing the pre-WWII Polish leadership’s plans for the partition and subsequent annihilation of the Soviet Union, informs RIA Novosti news agency. The book “The secrets of Polish policies, 1939-1945” was collected in archives by the General-Mayor of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service Lev Sotskov. Lev Sotskov says that the declassified documents contain incontestable evidence of aggressive plans by the Polish leadership before the WWII. “These declassified documents testify that the Polish Joint Staff created a special subdivision to work with minor nationalities on the territory of the Soviet Union,” shared Sotskov. “The USSR should be split according to nationality. Ukraine and Belarus should be torn from Russia and become independent states. In the meantime, the Russian state should be pushed further to the east, to the Volga River,” Sotskov cited the documents as saying. PICTURED: General-Mayor of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service Lev Sotskov at the press conference in Moscow presenting his book “The secrets of Polish policies, 1939-1945” and the declassified documents containing incontestable evidence of aggressive plans by the Polish leadership before the WWII
 

August 27, 2009. An unofficial meeting of the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (r) anf Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko (l) took place in Russian President`s summer residence in Sochi on August 27, 2009. The Kremlin reported that the summit plans to discuss some acute issues of Belarussian-Russian cooperation including cooperation in the fuel and energy sphere and partnership within the Euro-Asian Economic Community and the Customs Union.
 

August 27, 2009. Russian Prime-Minister Vladimir Putin meets President of the unrecognized republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity (r)in Moscow
 

August 25, 2009. Celebrations of Independence Day of Ukraine. Pictured: Prime-Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko (r) visiting St. Sofia Cathedral in Kyiv
 

August 24, 2009. Russian prime-minister Vladimir Putin visits Yakutia
 

August 21, 2009. President of Israel Shimon Peres at the press conference in Sochi , Russia
 

August 20, 2009. President of Finland Tarja Halonen visiting Russia. Pictured: President of Finland Tarja Halonen and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Sochi
 

August 20, 2009. Russian Prime-Minister Vladimir Putin visits Pepublic of Abkhazia. Pictured: Russian Prime-Minister Vladimir Putin and President of Abkhazia Sergei Bagapsh (l)
 

August 20, 2009. German Chancellor Angela Merkel visiting Russia. Pictured: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Sochi
 

August 17, 2009. Two Russian fighter jets of Russia’s famed aerobatic team `Russkiye Vityazi` ( `Russian Knights` ) have collided on Sunday, August 16th, 2009 near Zhukhovsky airfield, east of Moscow, where they were practicing for the MAKS 2009 Aerospace Exhibition, set to start on Tuesday , August 18th 2009.The victim of the crash was colonel Igor Tkachenko, commander of Russia’s famed aerobatic team, Russkiye Vityazi . Pictured: demo flight of SU-27 fighter jets of `Russkiye Vityazi` aerobatic team ( `Russian Knights` )
 

August 17, 2009. Two Russian fighter jets of Russia’s famed aerobatic team `Russkiye Vityazi` have collided on Sunday, August 16th, 2009 near Zhukhovsky airfield, east of Moscow, where they were practicing for the MAKS 2009 Aerospace Exhibition, set to start on Tuesday , August 18th 2009.The victim of the crash was colonel Igor Tkachenko, commander of Russia’s famed aerobatic team, Russkiye Vityazi . Pictured: fragments of the crashed SU-27 fighter jet
 

July 21, 2009. U.S. Vice-President Joseph Biden visits Ukraine. Biden is expected to meet with Ukraine`s leaders and opposition to reaffirm Washington`s support to the former Soviet countries realizing democratic and economic reforms. Pictured: U.S. Vice-President Joseph Biden (l) and President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko at the meeting in Kyiv