April 07, 2009. Dubai police authorities have accused Adam Delimkhanov (pictured) ,a senior Chechen official and member of Russian Parliament, of being behind the apparent killing of a rival of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov .
 

April 02, 2009. Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow ; Former CEO of Yukos oil company Mikhail Khodorkovsky Goes on New Trial in Moscow. Pictured: Mikhail Khodorkovsky (r) at the court hearings
 

April 01, 2009. Russian human rights leader Lev Ponomarev (pictured during russian democratic forces march held in Moscow) was violently attacked in Moscow. The attack on him took place after a meeting with PACE representative Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger. She is now found in the capital and intends to present a report on political repressions in Russia based on the results of her journey. The assault was perpetrated by three unknown persons at the doorstep to Ponomarev`s home, without explanation of the reasons. The human rights activist`s condition is listed as serious.
 

March 30, 2009. Belarus opposition marks Freedom Day. Belarusian Opposition supporters staged a demonstration honoring a banned Belarusian holiday. March 25 has long been a traditional day of demonstration for the opposition, marking what they call Freedom Day - the anniversary of the 1918 declaration of the first, short-lived independent Belarusian state. Pictured: young Belarusians with national flags protest against Lukashenko regime during a rally in Minsk
 

March 27, 2009. Yevgeny Primakov , chairman of Trade-Industrial Chamber of Russia while visirting Saratov. (Yevgeny Primakov is a Russian politician, a former KGB general and a former Prime Minister of Russia. He was also the last Speaker of the Soviet of the Union of the Supreme Soviet, and the Russian Foreign Minister)
 

March 24, 2009. Nowruz (Persian: نوروز ) is the traditional New Year holiday cheerfully celebrated and observed in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Albania, Georgia, Bosnia, Caucasus, Crimea, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Pakistan, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. Nowruz is a Zoroastrian holiday and having significance amongst the Zoroastrian ancestors of modern Iranians. Pictured: Nowruz celebrations by Kazakhstan diaspora in Moscow
 

March 13, 2009. Dissenters` March in Moscow. Russian opposition forces rally in central Moscow. Pictured: member of ultra nationalist National Bolshevik party
 

March 13, 2009. Russian childern learn japanese language in Moscow` school
 

March 11, 2009. Exhibition on Soviet Repression in Sakharov museum of Moscow. Pictured: archival photographs of Butovo Victims of Political Repression - repressed people who suffered and sacrificed under the totalitarian regime
 

March 10, 2009. North Korea , current leader of North Korea Kim Jong-il at Ariran Festival to celebrate the 90th birthday of North Korean founder Kim Il-sung
 

March 10, 2009. `Pechatniki` woman`s prison #6 in Moscow. Pictured: woman prisoners in the sleeping quarters ; a prisoner is busy for make-up
 

February 20, 2009. Novy Urengoy is a town in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District of Tyumen in Russia. A major business of the district is oil and gas production, with one of the largest gas fields in the world The Yuzhno-Russkoye gas field and substantial prospects for further exploration. The Yuzhno-Russkoye gas field is designated to become the main natural gas supply for the Nord Stream pipeline. Pictured: the stella with the name of Novy Urengoy town installed at the entrance to the town
 

February 16, 2009. Fair Russia youth movement held a rally in central Moscow to criticise goverment` anti-crisis plans to raise prices and tarifs for housing service
 

February 11, 2009. President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev in Kremlin
 

February 04, 2009. Russia`s unemployment rate goes up. Almost half of Russians worry they will be unemployed in the next three months. The market is filled with people looking for work.The unemployment rise, announced this week, is the latest blow to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s plan to expand the middle class and make the economy, currently the world’s 10th largest, one of the top five by 2020. Pictured: unemployed russians searching for a job at Employment Centre of Rostov on Don city.