September 08, 2009. German writer Philipp Vandenberg attends 22nd Moscow International Book Fair
 

September 04, 2009. Russian Prime-Minister Vladimir Putin pictured while visiting Poland
 

September 03, 2009. Bubble Baba Challenge 2009 inflatable doll rafting down the wildwater of Vuoksa river. The competition now takes place annualy outside the village of Losevo, about 110km from St Petersburg. The idea of floating down the river in the embraces of a rubber woman was conceived as a joke at a party where the men gathered for the party got seriously drunk because their women didn`t show up, says the organiser of annual Bubble Baba Challenge (in Russian, `Baba` stands for `woman`) doll rafting Dmitry Bulavinov. So russians found another uses for inflatable sex doll, suggesting it would be a good flotation device as well as a good thing for getting moral and physical satisfaction through funny rafting down river`s wildwater. Bubble Baba Challenge fun swimming competition between men near St.Petersburg. During this competition men are floating down the river with inflatable sex doll in order to come first to the finish to be the winner of this funny competition.
 

September 02, 2009. The First Wheelchair Dance International Competition CONTINENTS CUP 2009 held in St.Petersburg, Russia. Dancers participating in the First Wheelchair Dance International Competition have shown that disability is no barrier to achieving poise and grace on the dancefloor
 

September 01, 2009. Five years on from the Beslan school siege ; pictured: soldiers rescuing school children - hostages.
 

September 01, 2009. Russian Riot Police special forces OMON detained about 15 people who represent russian democratic opposition trying to hold an anti-Kremlin demonstration at the square near the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in central Moscow on Monday, August 31st, to defend Russians` constitutional right to assembly.
 

August 26, 2009. Russian liberal democratic political movement `Solidarnost` rallied in central Moscow calling on russian goverment to resign. Pictured: Russian riot police arresting Solidarnost activists
 

August 26, 2009. Activists of Memorial Human Rights Centre held the picket in central Moscow aimed to commemorate human rights activist Natalia Estemirova was found murdered in Ingushetia in July 2009. Pictured: a man holding portrait of Natalia Estemirova
 

August 20, 2009. Russian carpenter Vasily Kozin from Ulyanovka village of Tosno region built a weird house - the hut on checken legs. As for Russian folklore a witch-like character Baba Yaga is living in such a house which stands on chicken feet. Pictured: carpenter Vasily Kozin inside his new house
 

August 03, 2009. Rimma Salonen , the Russian mother of a child illegally taken out of Russia by his Finnish father in spring 2009, could have been tricked into going to Finland, where she is currently being held in detention. Rimma Salonen is pictured late May 2009 in her native town of Balakhna , Nizhny Novgorod region
 

July 31, 2009. Kyiv, UkraineWedding ceremony of Ukrainian President`s son Andrei Yushchenko . Pictured: Ukrainian President`s son Andrei Yushchenko (r)and his wife Elizaveta Ephrosinina (l)
 

July 30, 2009. Handover ceremony of two Faberge Eggs made by Theo Faberge to Peterhof Museum
 

July 30, 2009. Svetlana Medvedeva , wife of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Svetlana Medvedeva visiting the St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral in St. Petersburg
 

July 29, 2009. President of the United States Barack Obama in Moscow
 

July 29, 2009. Russians Demand Jobs. Jobless people with portraits of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime-Minister Vladimir Putin gathered in central Moscow to demand jobs. The slogan reads: `Give Us the Job`