Residents celebrate the signing of documents on the recognition by the Russian Federation of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) and the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) in Donetsk, DPR, Ukraine.21.02.2022#8122862
Russian athletes attend the welcoming ceremony after returning from the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at the VTB Arena, in Moscow, Russia.21.02.2022#8122739
Volunteers organize the collection and dispatch of humanitarian aid for refugees from the DPR and the LPR at a collection point in Yekaterinburg, Russia.21.02.2022#8122377
In this handout photo released by Tennis Australia, first-placed Serbia's Novak Djokovic reacts during an awarding ceremony after the singles final tennis match against Russia's Daniil Medvedev at the Australian Open 2021 tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia. Editorial use only, no archive, no commercial use.21.02.2021#6469217
Olympic Athlete from Russia Alina Zagitova performs her short program during the women's figure skating competition at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games.21.02.2018#3305273
Stef Vandeweyer (Belgium) during the men's big air event at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games.21.02.2018#3305241
Sochi, Russia. Orchestra conductor Yang Huachang performs during a special project "Where China Meets Europe" during the 10th International Winter Art Festival, under the guidance of Yury Bashmet.21.02.2017#3035278
The rescue tug Foty Krylov is breaking ice around the abandoned stricken vessel Yeruslan that will later be towed to the quay of the Slavyansky Ship Repair Plant in the Gulf of Amur.21.02.2017#3034560
A Syrian army soldier prepares the Su-22 fighter jet for a flight at the Syrian Air Force base in Homs province.21.02.2016#2795995
A girl plays with a dog during the "Husky Fest" Sled Dog Festival in the village of Stepniy, Novosibirsk region.21.02.2016#2795627
The spectator stand during the women's alpine skiing competition at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.21.02.2014#2384874
Radical opposition members wait for a decision of the extraordinary meeting of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada.21.02.2014#2384059
Participants in a territorial ice fishing tournament for the disabled in Amur Bay, Vladivostok.21.02.2013#1385107
Moiseyev State Academic Folk Dance Ensemble members perform a Bulgarian dance at the concert marking the ensemble's 75th birthday at Russia's Bolshoi Theater.21.02.2012#1045427
Technical staff and volunteers at the "Rose Farm" ski complex set the grid net on the downhill slope for the 2010/2011 women's Alpine skiing European Cup competition.21.02.2011#866512
Sheremetyevo Airport. A delegation from the Tanganyika African National Union and the Afro-Shirazi Party (the United Republic of Tanzania) headed by Abdulnuru Suleiman, a member of the Union's National Executive Committee, arrived to Moscow on February 21, 1976, to participate in the 25th Congress of the CPSU. Welcome at the airport.21.02.1976#848645
UEFA Champions League. Football. Spartak Moscow vs. Bavaria Munich. Fans on the stands. Luzhniki Stadium.21.02.2001#833479
On the medals stand are the winner and prizemen of the championship (left to right): Boris Repnin (2nd place), Igor Zhelezovski (1st place) and Andrei Bakhvalov (3rd place). USSR speed skating championship.21.02.1985#823236
Mothers' meeting against the increase of payments for kindergartens and nurseries. Moscow, the Central Gorky culture and recreation park, February 21, 1992. The transparencies say "Don't deprive children of childhood", "We support government financing", "Kindergartens and the working mothers ask the deputy for help".21.02.1992#788827
Nikolai Zimyatov (born 1955), three-time Olympic champion in 50km cross-country skiing, at the 13th Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid (February 9-24, 1980).21.02.1980#788453
At the pedestal: Lydia Skoblikova (center) took the first place in the classic all-around at the world speed skating championship. Left - Inga Voronina (second place), right - Valentine Stenina. Karuizawa. A UPI photo reproduction.21.02.1963#704429
Participants of the mass start event during the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.21.02.2010#581001
February 21, 2010. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits the renovated Mikhailovsky (Engineer) Castle, St. Petersburg.21.02.2010#580535
Vietnamese circus artists performing for the workers of the Moscow Machine-Tool Plant Krasny Proletary.21.02.1968#572269
Yelena Bonner, the wife of the famous Soviet dissident, political and human rights activist Academician Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989).21.02.1989#535332
Young women on the last day of Maslenitsa, or Pancake Week, at the Kolomenskoye state museum-reserve.21.02.1999#509805
President Vladimir Putin, center, on the Cathedral Square in the Kremlin during a ceremony for presenting colors to commanders-in-chief of eight fighting arms.21.02.2002#399817
A scene from the production of Othello at the Meno Fortas Theatre in Vilnius, Lithuania, directed by Eimuntas Nekrosius, with Vladas Bagdonas as Othello and Egle Spokaite as Desdemona. The play was shown at the Mossovet Theater in Moscow as part of the Golden Mask anniversary tour.21.02.2004#393993
Building a suspension bridge over the Oka River in Murom on the border between the Nizhny Novgorod and Vladimir regions.21.02.2009#376345
Loading into a plane cargoes for the North Pole-25 [SP-25] research station working on drifting ice in the central polar basin of the Arctic Ocean. 21.02.1982#167631
Members of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper Arctic expedition. It traveled from the drifting station North Pole-26 to North Pole-27, studying the condition, thickness and composition of ice in the Arctic Ocean. 21.02.1986#141523
The Yamato drummer ensemble on a guest tour in Russia. A charitable concert in the orphanage of Odintsovo, Moscow Region. Kids enjoy a look at the instruments 21.02.2005#114495
Decorative artist Yulia Merzlikina preparing her glass composition "Music of the Wind" at the festival "Expecting Spring. Shrovetide" in Tsaritsino. 21.02.2003#57599
Russian President Boris Yeltsin (left) and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (right) exchanging a friendly handshake during their meeting in the Kremlin. 21.02.1997#30585
Cosmonauts Pavel Belyaev (left) and Alexei Leonov in Voskhod-2 spacecraft simulator system.21.02.1965#13963
