August 12, 2011. August 11,2011.Moscow,Russia.Pictured:Russian actress Natalia Zakharova at the press conference in Moscow . Russian actress Natalia Zakharova, who served a three-year sentence for setting fire to her French ex-husband`s apartment after he took away their daughter was freed from Russian prison. Natalia Zakharova may return to France, since her jail term is viewed as served, a French Foreign Ministry official said here on Wednesday,August10. The diplomat reminded that Zakharova, convicted in France, was transferred to Russian prison before being pardoned by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. According to the actress, her main objective now is the search for her daughter, who lives in France. Zakharova said her daughter actually has been `wandering between orphanages, adoptive families and closed boarding schools for 13 years in France.
 

August 09, 2011. August 08,2011.Moscow,Russia. Putin`s `Army` and Medvedev`s `Girls` ride tandem bikes to support Putin-Medvedev cooperation.Pictured: activists supporting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin united for a tandem bike-ride on Monday.Eight young people are pedaling four two-seat bikes: four young men at the front seats and four girls on the backseats, all wearing shorts, T-shirts and baseball caps sporting the names of VKontakte social network groups - `Medvedev Is Our President` and `I Really Like Putin.`
 

August 08, 2011. August 07,2011.Moscow,Russia.Pictured: Red Bull Flugtag festival in Moscow. Red Bull Flugtag challenges teams of everyday people to build homemade, human-powered flying machines and pilot them off a 30-foot high deck in hopes of achieving flight! With varying levels of brilliance and stupidity you can be certain of one thing, every craft that leaves the deck will end up in the water at some point. Entrants are judged not only on their flight`s distance, but creativity and showmanship as well.
 

August 03, 2011. July 04,2011.Seliger Lake, Russia.International Youth Forum Seliger 2011. Pictured: participants of the Youth Forum at gymnastic exercise at the sport ground decorated with portraits of prime-minister Vladimir Putin (r) and president Dmitry Medvedev (l). The Seliger youth forum has kicked off in western Russia as the next generation of the country`s `movers and shakers` come together to exchange ideas and present their vision of the future. Organizers of the annual camp say they are training the political and business `go-getters` for years to come. The forum is organized by pro-Kremlin youth agency Rosmolodezh and the pro-Kremlin Nashi youth movement. 20,000 young people from Russia and more than 80 other countries have joined up to take part in the event and exchange ideas.
 

August 02, 2011. July 19,2011.Moscow,Russia.Pictured: `No Pictures - No Democracy` - Russian photographers calling for support of Georgian photographers arrested by Saakashvili regime. Police in Georgia arrested four photographers, including the personal photographer of Georgia’s president Saakashvili and a photojournalist with European Pressphoto Agency on suspicion of espionage. The Georgia Interior Ministry has accused the photographers of working against the interests of Georgia by supplying the special service of an unnamed country with secret information.
 

July 29, 2011. July 16,2001. `Porechie` border crossing point on Belarus-Lithuania border in Grodno region of Belarus. Pictured: getting out smuggling cigarettes from the car`s bumper.Belarus border guards arrested 6 cars at a time with 4 citizens of Lithuania and 2 citizens of Belarus who tried to illegaly transport lots of smuggling cigarettes through Belarus-Lithuania border.The cigarettes were found in a specialy fixed hiding places of the ordinary cars, such as petrol tanks, bumpers, gas balloons, rear seats hiding.... Belarus and Lithuania declared war against cigarette smuggling.Tons of smuggling cigarettes penetrate into European Union territotry through Russian and Belarus border with EU.The Lithuanian government has approved tougher penalties for smugglers, replacing fines with imprisonment for up to eight years. Similarly Lithuania plans to increase spending on customs enforcement by 15% in 2011, including installation of X-ray scanners at border crossings. «Everyone should understand that by smoking illegal cigarettes you harm not only your health but also your parents and children,» said the Prime Minister of Lithuania Andrius Kubilius.«You are taking away the money for your children’s school or your parents pensions.»
 

July 27, 2011. Spanish tenor Placido Domingo at Operalia annual World Opera Competition in Moscow.
 

July 26, 2011. July 25,2011.St.Petersburg,Russia. Pictured:Russian people express their condolences at Norwegian Consulate in St.Petersburg. People bring flowers to Norwegian Consulate to express their condolences over the victims of last week`s bombing and shooting attacks in Norway.
 

July 22, 2011. July 21,2011. Moscow,Russia. Pictured: a dozen of young sexy russian women from a youth movement-group called `We Really Like Putin`set up the `aVVtomoika`(meaning car wash in russian)but with a double V in Cyrillic to match Putin`s first two names Vladimir Vladimirovich. Patriotically, they only offer their wash services to drivers of Ladas, Volgas and other Russian cars. `We are doing the car wash because we just love Putin,`- says one of the girls. The group called `We Really Like Putin` has attracted more than 110,000 members, but the prime minister Vladimir Putin insists he has no knowledge who is behind it... The next Presidential Elections in Russia are too close - March 4,2012.
 

July 21, 2011. July 12,2011.Kuibyshev water reservoir,Tatarstan,Russia. Pictured: Divers at work for search and rescue operation on sunken Bulgaria passenger ship. Bulgaria cruise ship, which was on a Bolgary-Kazan river voyage, sank in the Kuibyshev water reservoir in conditions of stormy weather on July 10. Built in 1955, the ship listed to the starboard and sank within minutes.
 

July 19, 2011. July 17,2011.Moscow,Russia.A Water Fight flash mob at `Friendship of Nations` fountain of All-Russian Exibition Center (VDNKh)public park in Moscow. Pictured: participants of the flash mob getting totally wet.
 

July 18, 2011. July 16,2011.St.Petersburg,Russia.A pillow fight flash mob on Nevsky avenue in central St.Petersburg. A pillow fight flash mob is a social phenomenon of flash mobbing and shares many characteristics of a culture jam. The flash mob version of massive pillow fights is distinguished by the fact that nearly all of the promotion is Internet-based. These events occur around the world, some taking the name Pillow Fight Club.
 

July 13, 2011. July 12,2011. `Masterpieces of World Culture` Sand Sculpture International Festival in St.Petersburg,Russia.
 

July 11, 2011. July 09,2011.Women`s running competition on spike heel shoes in Moscow, Russia.
 

July 07, 2011. July 06,2011.Gorky park, Moscow,Russia. To Kiss President Medvedev action organized by `VKontakte - Medvedev is Our President` movement. The action was devoted to World Kiss Day.