May 08, 2013. April 30,2013. Pictured: President Vladimir Putin at the Russian Geographical Society board of trustees session in St.Petersburg,Russia.
 

April 19, 2013. Alexander Rahr, German politologist and program director at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).
 

April 01, 2013. March 30,2013. Pictured: Mikhail Gorbachev lecturing at RIA Novosti multi-media centre of Moscow,Russia.
 

March 12, 2013. March 10,2013. St.Petersburg,Russia. Life Without Fear training course.Pictured: a trainee stands on nails.
 

March 11, 2013. Doll Salon in Moscow,Russia. Pictured : Pussy Riot doll.
 

March 05, 2013. March 03,2013. Pictured: A mass Harlem Shake flashmob held in St.Petersburg of Russia. People gathered in central St.Petersburg are dancing Harlem Shake.
 

February 19, 2013. February 17,2013.Moscow,Russia. Pictured:The Hereditary Prince Carl Ferdinand of Bentheim and Steinfurt and his wife Princess Elna-Margret of Bentheim and Steinfurt attend birthday party of russian singer Irina Dubtsova at The Sad restaurant of Moscow.
 

February 11, 2013. February 08,2013.St.Petersburg,Russia. Russian police conducted a special operation in Apraksin Dvor market of St.Petersburg and have detained 271 people, most of them from the North Caucasus and central Asia, in an investigation into involvement in “terrorist activities”. Pictured: police arrest a dealer from Apraksin Dvor market.
 

February 11, 2013. February 09,2013.First same-sex marriage (or equal marriage) between two women in Russia. The marriage was registered by non-formal registry office Point-G in St.Petersburg,Russia. Pictured: two happy young lesbian women with marriage certificate in the Point-G registry office.
 

February 06, 2013. February 02,2013. Stalinbus appeared in the streets of St.Petersburg, Russia. A minibus with portrait of Stalin on it in commemoration of 70th anniversary of Stalingrad Battle victory over the nazis is seen in St.Petersburg.
 

February 06, 2013. February 03,2013. World of Tanks Championship in St.Petersburg,Russia. Pictured: the players in World of Tanks.
 

February 01, 2013. Volgograd will become Stalingrad again.The government of Volgograd city took unanimous decision on Thursday,January 31,2013 to officially restore its Communist-era name, Stalingrad, for six days each year. Volgograd will officially become the “hero-city Stalingrad” on Saturday,February 02,2013 when the city celebrates the 70th anniversary of a landmark victory there over the Nazis in 1943 that turned the tide of World War II. It will do so again on five other days that commemorate the Soviet Union’s victory in the war. Pictured: The Motherland statue (back)(or The Mamayev Kurgan Monument)in Mamayev Kurgan War Memorial of Volgograd. Russian war veterans in Mamayev Kurgan War Memorial.
 

January 23, 2013. January 22,2013. Kiev,Ukraine. Pictured: supporters of jailed ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko with her portraits demand to Free Yulia.
 

January 15, 2013. January 14,2013.St.Petersburg,Russia. French actor and Russian citizen Gérard Depardieu became a new face of Russian Bank Sovetsky (Sovetsky is translated into english as Soviet). Pictured: the billboard promotes Sovetsky Bank credit cards with image of Gérard Depardieu.
 

December 28, 2012. December 26,2012. St.Petersbutg,Russia.Russians protest against the Magnitsky Act approved by The US Senate.Pictured: a teenager Sarah Grin tearing into pieces american passport in front of the US Consulate office in St.Petersburg.People also express their suppot to so called `Dima Yakovlev Law` which is russian respond to the Magnitsky Act.
 

December 18, 2012. December 10, 2012.Moscow,Russia. Pictured:Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with trustees in Moscow.
 

November 29, 2012. The first Cossack patrol started working near the Belorusskiy railway station in central Moscow. A group of unarmed men will search for illegally parked cars and unlicensed street vendors, the city authorities said. However, it will be up to the police to enforce the law as the Cossacks have no right to force anyone to do anything. Pictured: November 27,2012. Moscow,Russia. Cossack patrol speaking with unlicensed street vendors near the Belorusskiy railway station .
 

November 26, 2012. November 24,2012. Borisov region of Belarus. Pictured: Historical reconstruction of The Battle of Berezina. The Battle of Berezina (or Beresina) took place from 26 to 29 November 1812, between the French army of Napoleon, retreating after his invasion of Russia and crossing the Berezina (near Borisov, Belarus), and the Russian armies under Mikhail Kutuzov, Peter Wittgenstein and Admiral Pavel Chichagov.
 

November 21, 2012. November 13,2012. Moscow,Russia. Pictured: First Russia`s President Mikhail Gorbachev presenting his new book `Alone With Myself`.
 

November 20, 2012. Rebecca Mieliwocki,the 2012 US National Teacher of the Year visits Moscow.
 

November 14, 2012. November 10,2012. Moscow,Russia. The opening of the Christmas toys market `Royal Fairytale`. Pictured: Danish designer Helle Brink, a supplier of the Christmas toys for Royal Courts of the United Kingdom and Denmark.
 

November 06, 2012. November 04,2012. Moscow,Russia. Members of Russian ultra radical nationalist organizations conducted large-scale protests under racist slogans in Moscow and other major cities of Russia. Pictured: members of ultra nationalistic organizations at the rally in Moscow.
 

October 22, 2012. According to Nadezhda Tolokonnikova`s husband Pyotr Verzilov, Russia`s punk band Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was sent to Mordivia prison camp to serve imprisonment. Pictured: June 20,2012.Moscow,Russia. The Tagansky Court of Moscow. Cort hearings over the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot. Pussy riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (back) at the hearings in The Court. Russia`s punk band Pussy Riot sentenced to two years in prison for hooliganism. The three members of girl punk band Pussy Riot are facing charges of hooliganism for performing a punk song in Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral earlier this year.
 

October 19, 2012. Russia`s Left Front leader Sergei Udaltsov is being investigated for provoking mass unrest and for organising terrorist attacks. Pictured: October 17,2012. Moscow,Russia. Russian opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov escorted by police officers getting out of his house right after the search in his apartment was conducted by police forces.
 

October 12, 2012. Russia`s punk band Pussy Riot sentenced to two years in prison for hooliganism. The three members of girl punk band Pussy Riot are facing charges of hooliganism for performing a punk song in Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral earlier this year. Pictured: January 20,2012.Moscow,Russia. Russia`s punk band Pussy Riot conducted anti Putin action in front of the Kremlin in central Moscow.
 

October 05, 2012. July 18,2012. Siberia, Tomsk city of Russia. Medical prison in Tomsk of Russia. The Toms medical prison is a facility providing specialized medical treatment to male offenders who are improsoned for serious crime. The Toms medical prison is providing medical treatment to those criminals who are suffering tuberculosis . Pictured: doctors and a prisoner.
 

October 01, 2012. September 22,2012.Moscow,Russia. Pictured: activists of Russian Communist Party protested with portraits of Stalin against raise of housing tariffs that Russian authorities are planning to do.
 

September 05, 2012. August 27,2012. Minsk,Belarus. Belly Parade 2012 in Belarus. Pictured: pregnant Belarus women with painted bellies.
 

September 05, 2012. September 02,2012.Russia, Borodino of Moscow region. Celebrations of 200th Anniversary of Borodino Battle. Reconstruction of the 1812 Borodino Battle .
 

August 27, 2012. Nearly 15 years after her death, Princess Diana`s memory still stirs interest and emotion. Pictured: Moscow,Russia. Princess Diana when visitng Moscow in June 1995.