December 19, 2007. Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov (l) visits Latvia for talks with the country’s leadership on final border delineation. On the picture: Sergei Lavrov at the press conference in Riga
 

December 18, 2007. December 18, 2007. Julia Timoshenko was just elected a new prime minister of Ukraine. Timoshenko accepts congratulations from ukrainian parliament members.
 

December 18, 2007. United Russia Party congress in Moscow, Dmitri Medvedev making speech . United Russia congress that almost unanimously elected Medvedev as the party`s candidate for the presidential election. In a rare show of disunity in the pro-Putin party, a single delegate opposed Medvedev in the 478-1 vote. The identity of the dissenter was unknown because the vote was by secret ballot. `If Russian citizens express their confidence in Dmitry Medvedev and elect him president of the country, then I will be ready to head the government,` Putin told United Russia congress delegates.
 

December 18, 2007. Leonid Brezhnev and Fidel Castro with soviet cosmonauts (Valentina Tereshkova in centre between Brezhnev and Castro) in ` Star City ` near Moscow. Year 1970.
 

December 11, 2007. President Vladimir Putin said Monday that he backed Dmitry Medvedev as the next president of Russia. On the picture: First vice premier Dmitri Medvedev during the visit to Pushkin Fine Art Museum
 

December 10, 2007. The leader of Russian People`s Democratic Union Mikhail Kasyanov (pictured) officialy announced in Moscow about his decision to run for russian presidency in 2008 presidential elections.
 

December 05, 2007. December 4th, 2007. The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili (left) arrived in Moscow for consultations on nuclear problems. President Vladimir Putin had a meeting with Saeed Jalili at the president`s Novo-Ogaryovo residence near Moscow.
 

December 05, 2007. Arseni Yatsenyuk (pictured) was elected n as new speaker of Ukrainian Parliament
 

December 03, 2007. Sunday`s parliamentary elections in Russia. Results released late Sunday gave United Russia a crushing victory: about 61% of voters supported United Russia party (on the monitor - head of Central Elective Commission Vladimir Churov) .
 

November 30, 2007. Former FSB (KGB) officer Mikhail Trepashkin was freed on Friday, November 30, 2007, from jail in Nizhny Tagil after serving 4 years imprisonment. Archive picture: former russian secret service colonel Mikhail Trepashkin during the court hearings in Moscow Court. Mikhail Trepashkin has his handcuffs removed before the verdict is read out during his trial in Moscow May 19, 2004.(Trepashkin is possibly linked to Litvinenko`s case)
 

November 26, 2007. Dissenters` March of russian demacratic opposition in Moscow. Participants of the march
 

November 26, 2007. Black Sea Ecological Catastrophe, black sea oil spill as a result of russian oil tankers wreckage. A `colossal` ecological catastrophe is growing even larger in the Strait of Kerch where at least 10 oil tankers and cargo ships loaded with sulfur were wrecked in a fierce storm on November 11. On the picture: russian army soldiers clean the Stait of Kerch seashore from oil.
 

November 13, 2007. Moscow, November 12, 2007. Indian Prime Minister Monmohan Singh and Russian President Vladimir Putin attending Russian-Indian talks in the Kremlin.
 

November 08, 2007. Celebrations of the 90th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution in Moscow. Thousands of people gathered in central Moscow to demonstrate their support to the ideas of the Bolshevik Revolution. Soldiers dressed in World War II-era military uniforms marching on Red Square to commemorate a 1941 march on the square.
 

November 08, 2007. Tbilisi, Georgia, November 7, 2007. Anti Presidential Clashes in Tbilisi. Hundreds of people who demand resigning of President Saakashvili are injured. Georgian security forces fire using water cannons, gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of thousands of people near the parliament building in Tbilisi.