December 18, 2017. President Vladimir Putin and human rights activist, public figure and Chairperson of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila Alexeyeva at the ceremony of presenting state awards for outstanding achievements in human rights and charity activities for 2017.18.12.2017#3260496
Zenit's players and coaches celebrate their team's victory in the final match between Cucine Lube Civitanova Marche, Italy and VC Zenit Kazan, Russia at the FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship.18.12.2017#3260088
A participant in a Grandfather Frost parade in Crimea during the contest "Santa Clause Takes a Break - Grandfather Frost Takes the Stage", in Yevpatoria.18.12.2016#2998060
From left: Argentinian singer Marcelo Alvarez, Bolshoi Theater soloist Dinara Alieva and opera singer Dmitri Hvorostovsky during a concert from the series Hvorostovsky and Friends, at the Oktyabrsky Grand Concert Hall in St. Petersburg.18.12.2016#2998024
Russian ballroom dance champions (choreographer Ilya Makovsky) perform during the Johann Strauss Snow White Ball in the State Kremlin Palace.18.12.2016#2997998
A Syrian Arab Army (SAA) soldier at the Marj al-Sultan military airbase, captured by the army, in south-eastern Damascus.18.12.2015#2761904
The opening ceremony of the Euro Hockey Tour 2014-15 second stage, Channel One Cup, in Sochi.18.12.2014#2545616
Viewers watching the 3D-musical Pola Negri directed by Janusz Juzefovicha in the DC Lensoviet.18.12.2013#2339822
Viewers watching the 3D-musical Pola Negri directed by Janusz Juzefovicha in the DC Lensoviet.18.12.2013#2339821
Student near the entrance to the Russian State Trade and Economic University (RGTEU) with a poster reading "it is famous all over the country, RGTEU is the best high school". RGTEU students have gone on strike over the decision by the Ministry of Education to recognize the university as ineffective.18.12.2012#1318732
USSR national team attacking Jiri Holecek's net. Ice hockey match between USSR and USA for the prize of the Izvestiya newspaper.18.12.1971#687029
The Soviet of Union Chamber meeting. Second session of the USSR Supreme Soviet. 9th convocation. Kremlin, December 18, 1974.18.12.1974#673782
Sasha Pozdnyakov, a first-grader at the Central Specialized Music School of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, during solfège class.18.12.1963#667646
Soviet pilot-cosmonauts Pyotr Klimuk and Valentin Lebedev prior to the launch of "Soyuz-13" spaceship.18.12.1973#623213
The artist Yury Nikulin celebrating his 70th birth anniversary. With grandson and son. The Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoi Bulvar.18.12.1996#611289
1942. The 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany. Residents of besieged Leningrad filling their buckets with water from a pump on Nevsky Avenue. Reproduction of photo. The State Museum of the History of Leningrad.01.12.1941#601565
Open lesson for blind children held at "Perspektiva", a Nizhny Novgorod regional mass organization of the parents of blind children, as a stage in the project "We are learning to see with the hands".18.12.2008#364836
An Estonian customs checkpoint on the edge of Narva on the Russo-Estonian frontier at Narva/Ivangorod.18.12.1992#143023
A military parade of the Proskurov Krasnoznamenny Guard Aviation Regiment, of the Kutuzov and Alexander Nevsky Orders, named after the Lenin Komsomol. 18.12.1987#24940
A reindeer herder from the Tyumenskaya Region shows his reindeers at the VDNKh (Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy).18.12.1981#24498
Members of international Soyuz-37 space crew: Vietnamese Cosmonaut-Researcher Pham Tuan (right) and Pilot-Cosmonaut of the U.S.S.R. Viktor Gorbatko (left) ski outside Moscow. 01.02.1980#16996
Left to right: cosmonauts Vladislav Volkov, Anatoly Filipchenko and Viktor Gorbatko after landing. 18.12.1969#15712
Chechen mothers protesting at the military commissioners' office. The sign reads "We want our innocent children back."18.12.2002#10603