November 02, 2006. Russian nationalists marched on Unity Day holiday in Moscow last year on November 4th, 2005.This year russian authorities banned marches in Moscow and St.Petersburg.
 

October 27, 2006. NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer visited Moscow where he discussed different issues with russian president including tension between Russia and Georgia.
 

October 27, 2006. The 4th anniversary of Dubrovka tragedy - terroristic attack on `Nord Ost` performance in Theatrical Centre Dubrovka.People placing flowers near the Theatre.
 

October 25, 2006. President Vladimir Putin`s live Q&A call-in TV session on Wednesday - October 25, 2006.
 

October 24, 2006. Vladimir Putin visited the Meeting of EU countries in Lahti (Finland)to discuss energy security issue.
 

October 24, 2006. Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko with his wife Ekaterina while his visit to Hungary.Yushchenko and his wife laying wreath to the monument to leaders of Hungarian revolution of 1956.
 

October 20, 2006. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived to Moscow for a three-day visit.During the visit of Ehud Olmert in Moscow the issue of Iran`s nuclear program was expected to be in focus for the talks with Putin.
 

October 13, 2006. Activists of russian pro-presidential youth movement `Nashi` protested in central Moscow against `dollarization` of Russia. The protest was held under the slogans `US Dollar Go Home` and `Ruble is Our Currency`.
 

October 12, 2006. Vladimir Putin visited Bavaria while his tour in Germany.
 

October 11, 2006. Funeral for Anna Politkovskaya.Thousands of russians paid their final respects on Tuesday to killed russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya at Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.
 

October 11, 2006. Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared in Dresden on Tuesday, October 10, 2006.Putin arrived in Dresden, the east German city where he served as a KGB agent in the 1980s, for talks with Merkel amid German concerns about the reliability of partnership with Russia.
 

October 10, 2006. The merger of three aluminium companies will create the largest aluminum company in the world - combining Russian Aluminum, SUAL and the aluminum-related company of Glencore.The new company would be worth up to $30 billion, making the new company, `United Company RusAl`, bigger than the current No. 1 aluminum company, Alcoa. RusAl`s Oleg Deripaska (c), SUAL`s Viktor Vekselberg (l) and Glencore`s Ivan Glasenberg (r) shaking hands at the press conference announcing the merger.
 

October 09, 2006. Members of `Putin`s` Fan Club marking Vladimir Putin`s 54th birthday at the exhibition `Children are Drawing Putin`s Portraits`.
 

October 09, 2006. Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was killed in her apartment building on Saturday. Police says that the murder is possibly tied to her investigative reportings.Politkovskaya was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head in an elevator in her apartment building at Lesnaya street in central Moscow.People gathered in central Moscow to express their indignation on the murder of the journalist.The portrait of Anna Politkovshaya near the apartment building where she used to live.
 

October 05, 2006. Ukrainian main opposition leader and a former Yushchenko ally Julia Timoshenko made a statement saying that :`Today, in fact, the president and the prime minister (in Ukraine)are in opposition to each other`.