October 29, 2008. St.Petersburg`s governor Valentina Matvyenko at the shooting range of a military base near St.Petersburg
 

October 21, 2008. President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev with his wife Svetlana Medvedeva crossing the Cathedral Square of Moscow Kremlin
 

October 21, 2008. The two-month-old female Siberian tiger cub was presented to the former Russian President Vladimir Putin for his 56th birthday. Vladimir Putin is photographed stroking the 20-pound cat. He has yet to decide between the names Mashenka and Milashka. The cub lay in a wicker basket with a tiger-print cushion on the verandah of his Moscow residence.
 

October 20, 2008. Europe`s largest mosque opened in Grozny, Chechnya. The mosque named after Akhmad Kadyrov , father of current president of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.
 

October 17, 2008. `Hunt and Arms` exhibition in Moscow. Women , guns and beauty
 

October 08, 2008. The Oktoberfest is a sixteen-day festival held each year in Munich, Bavaria, Germany during late September (and running to early October). It is one of the most famous events in the city and the world`s largest fair, with some six million people attending every year, and is an enjoyable event with an important part of Bavarian culture. Other cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations, modeled after the Munich event.
 

September 29, 2008. Parliamentary elections in Belarus. At least 500 opposition supporters held a peaceful protest rally in the capital Minsk after the polls closed late on Sunday. Many in the crowd carried white-and-red nationalist flags and anti president Lukashenko slogans : `Lukashenka Last Dictator in Europe`.
 

September 22, 2008. July 1975. Young workers The Baikal-Amur Mainline. The Baikal-Amur Mainline (Baikalo-Amurskaya Magistral’, BAM) is a railway line in Russia. Traversing Eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East, the 4,324 km (2,687 mile) long BAM runs about 610 to 770 km (380 to 480 miles) north of and parallel to the Trans-Siberian railway. The BAM was built as a strategic alternative route to the Trans-Siberian Railway, especially along the vulnerable sections close to the border with China. BAM`s costs were estimated at $14 billion, and it was built with special, durable tracks since much of it was built over permafrost
 

September 05, 2008. Mozhaisk Women`s prison camp. Pictured: women prisoners
 

September 05, 2008. Ballet shoes makers making special ballet dance shoes - pointe at the workshop in Moscow
 

August 22, 2008. Funeral for georgian soldiers perished during Russia-Georgia conflict took place at Mukhatgverdi cemetery near Tbilisi
 

July 18, 2008. Prison camp in Mordovia . Prison cell`s door of a prisoner who is convicted for life imprisonment .
 

July 10, 2008. St.Peter and Paul`s Catholic Cathedral was opened in the russian town of Tula.
 

July 01, 2008. `Foam Party` in Pushkin Square fountain in central Moscow. Young russians having fun bathing in fountain full of foam.
 

June 26, 2008. Circus elefants bathing at Nautilus city beach in Siberian river of Ob in Novosibirsk city