September 15, 2006. Anti american and anti NATO demonstration in St.Petersburg.Vladimir Putin is presented on the poster as a monkey and the puppet of George Bush. The slogan reads: Yankee Go Home and in russian:Yankee Get Out of Russia.
 

September 11, 2006. Vladimir Putin visited Kaliningrad.
 

September 08, 2006. (l-r)The Prince of Marocco Mulla Rashid,President Vladimir Putin and the King of Marocco Muhammed the 6th. President Vladimir Putin is the first Russian leader to visit Marocco.While the visit Putin will try to deepen trade ties and soothe concerns in Rabat about a massive arms deal between Moscow and Algeria.
 

September 07, 2006. Irina Sarishvili (on the picture) - the head of `Igor Georgadze Fund` and the head of Hope party during the search in the head office of the opposition Justice Party of Georgia. A special operation was carried out by Georgian police forces. Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili announced the alleged coup plot after masked police carried out early-morning raids throughout the country. Police arrested 29 people that probably are linked to the opposition Justice Party.
 

September 06, 2006. Vladimir Putin and Thabo Mbeki.Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the first visit by a Russian head of state to South Africa, agreed to deepen economic and political cooperation with South African Republic.
 

September 05, 2006. Vladimir Putin had talks in Athens with Bulgarian President Georgy Parvanov and Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis. The main issue of the talks was to push ahead with a long-stalled $900 million pipeline deal to carry Russian crude oil from Bulgaria to Greece.
 

September 05, 2006. Vladimir Putin (C),Yuri Luzhkov (mayor of Moscow) (R) and Patriarch Alexi II (L) at the Day of Moscow celebrations in Moscow.
 

August 30, 2006. A fire raged through the 19th-century Trinity Cathedral in St. Petersburg bringing down the massive main cupola atop the stately church and sending clerics scurrying to save treasured icons.
 

August 25, 2006. Pulkovo Airlines Tu 154 jet carrying at least 169 passengers and crew members from the Black Sea resort of Anapa to St. Petersburg crashed Tuesday afternoon near the Ukrainian city of Donetsk, killing everyone on board. Airplane crash site - one of the jet`s engines on the picture.
 

August 25, 2006. Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko with his family (wife and kids)marking Independence Day of Ukraine - August 24, 2006.
 

August 22, 2006. A bomb exploded in Cherkizovsky market Monday morning, killing 10 people and injuring as many as 55 in what appeared to be the work of a criminal gang.
 

August 16, 2006. The leaders of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan arrived in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Tuesday for a three-day informal summit with President Vladimir Putin. The meeting of the Eurasian Economic Community, an organization aimed at fostering economic cooperation, will focus on energy and customs issues.
 

August 08, 2006. Cuban President Fidel Castro, the world`s third-longest-serving head of state, stepped down temporarily Monday after intestinal surgery, handing over power for the first time to his brother Raul Castro, Cuban state television announced.
 

August 08, 2006. Russian president Vladimir Putin met with Moldova president Vladimir Voronin in Kremlin.
 

August 08, 2006. Viktor Yanukovych was approved as Ukraine`s new prime minister.