December 7, 2016. The Moscow Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Akita-inu dog Yume before being interviewed by Nippon Television Network Corporation and Yomiuri Shimbun in the run-up to his official visit to Japan.13.12.2016#2993169
The star atop the Vodovzvodnaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin. Right: the Grand Kremlin Palace, and the Church of St. John Climacus the Ivan the Great Bell Tower.27.10.2016#2990702
Funeral procession with the ashes of Comandante Fidel Castro arrives in Santiago de Cuba.03.12.2016#2986545
Bolshoi Theatre ballet dancer Olga Smirnova during a gala concert of the Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia and the Sveshnikov State Academic Russian Choir at the historical stage of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow.28.11.2016#2982029
The jubilee gala concert by the Svetlanov Russian State Symphony Orchestra and Sveshnikov State Academic Russian Choir on the Historic Stage of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.28.11.2016#2982003
The German light theater DUNDU gives a show at the third season opening of the skating rink at VDNKh exhibition center in Moscow.25.11.2016#2980092
Russian President Vladimir Putin after his meeting with FIFA president Gianni Infantino at the Moscow Kremlin, November 25, 2016.25.11.2016#2980018
An official ceremony of transfer of Kolpino submarine to Russian Naval Forces at the Admiralty Shipyards pier in Saint Petersburg.24.11.2016#2979283
Kasim Ahmad Alsavaz from an ISIS-freed area in Syria, during an initial medical examination at Kirov Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg. A group of Syrian children with serious chronic diseases are delivered to St. Petersburg to undergo treatment at Kirov Military Medical Academy.16.11.2016#2974939
November 10, 2016. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev near the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem during an official visit to Israel.10.11.2016#2971629
A shepherd during the joint drill of Russian, Belarusian and Serbian airborne forces "Slavic Fraternity-2016" on the Oresac testing grounds in Serbia.08.11.2016#2970832
US presidential candidate from the Republican Party Donald Trump after voting on the election day, in New York.08.11.2016#2970791
On November 7, Felix the polar bear and Yunona the Amur tigress at the Royev Ruchei Zoo in Krasnoayrsk predicted the results of the upcoming US presidential election. The tigress "voted" for Hillary Clinton, while the bear supporting Donald Trump.07.11.2016#2970551
The Festival of Light multimedia 3D-mappig show on the facade of St. Isaac Cathedral in St. Petersburg04.11.2016#2968763
Workers continue dismantling scaffolding near the monument to Saint Prince Vladimir Equal to the Apostles on Borovitskaya Square in Moscow.01.11.2016#2966210
Aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov during the transit of Russian Northern Fleet aircraft carrier group through the Norwegian Sea and the North Sea. (The picture is a handout material piece provided by the third person party. Strictly for editorial use. Archiving, commercial use, advertisement use phohibited).17.10.2016#2966088
A conscript in a carriage at the railway station in Omsk as he is about to head to the army.27.10.2016#2963768
Verkhovna Rada deputy Nadezhda Savchenko at the Supreme Court of Russia during appeal hearing on the case of Ukrainians Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, members of the UNA-UNSO nationalist organization.26.10.2016#2962992
Novosibirsk, Russia. A man from a school for winter swimmers at a lake in the city's Leninsky District.23.10.2016#2962231
Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Paul Loebe Haus parliamentary building in Berlin before the Normandy format meeting between the leaders of Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France on settling the Ukrainian conflict, October 19, 2016.19.10.2016#2959403
Member of Expedition 49/50 to the International Space Station Sergei Ryzhikov (Roscosmos) before the launch of the Soyuz MS-02 manned spacecraft from the Baikonur space launch center.19.10.2016#2958935
Amber containing remains of ancient insects from the collection of the Kaliningrad Amber Museum.17.10.2016#2958265
A participant during a jump at the second basejumping festival Skypark BASE days 2016 in Skypark AJ Hacket Sochi.15.10.2016#2957027
Contestants perform in the final of the 7th Miss Independence 2016 beauty contest in Moscow.13.10.2016#2956008
Servicemen of the special purpose and reconnaissance detachments of the Federal National Guard Troops Service during a forced march conducted as part of the qualification test for the right to wear crimson and dark green beret. Gorny training center in the Novosibirsk Region.12.10.2016#2954691
An army serviceman with Igla short-range man-portable air defense system standing on a Tigr armored vehicle during a joint tactical exercise of the Collective Rapid Reaction Force (CRRF) of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Rubezh-2016, at the Balykchy military base in Kyrgyzstan.07.10.2016#2952126
Street artist makes a portrait of DDT leader Yury Shevchyuk from fall leaves near Pushkin Square in Perm.04.10.2016#2950381
A horse grazes in the valley of the Karakabak River at the Northern Chuisky Ridge, the Altai Republic.15.09.2016#2950313
March marks the 23rd anniversary of the event on October 3-4, 1993, in Moscow, on Krasnaya Presnya Street in Moscow.04.10.2016#2950264
Boys at the polling station in the Russian embassy in Berlin on a single election day.18.09.2016#2939368
Broadcast from surveillance cameras at polling stations on the screen at the Central Electoral Commission on the general election day.18.09.2016#2939045
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin at the opening of Petrovsko-Razumovskaya station of Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro.16.09.2016#2937432
Gennady Zyuganov, Chairman of the Communist Party's Central Committee, speaks at an extraordinary conference of Moscow people's deputies.14.09.2016#2936006
A school roof destroyed by debris during a night shelling of Makeyevka by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.14.09.2016#2935916
A pyrotechnic demonstration during the closing of the international military-technical forum ARMY-2016 at the Alabino training ground in the Moscow region.11.09.2016#2934183
Moscow State Budgetary Institution Avtomobilnye Dorogi's cars during the First Moscow parade of municipal vehicles in Moscow.11.09.2016#2934041
Film director Andrei Konchalovsky, his wife Yulia Vysotskaya and their son Pyotr seen here outside Cinema Palace on Lido Island at the closing ceremony of 73rd Venice International Film Festival.10.09.2016#2933766
September 10, 2016. Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during a meeting on Lipno Island, Novgorod Region.10.09.2016#2933750
September 10, 2016. Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, at the City Days opening ceremony held on Red Square, Moscow.10.09.2016#2932832
A visitor at during the international military-technical forum ARMY-2016 at the Patriot Congress and Exhibition Center in the Military Patriotic Park of Culture and Recreation of the Russian Armed Forces, near Moscow.07.09.2016#2929951
Fidel Alejandro Veitia Echevarria, member of the band Mambo Party (Russia - Cuba), performs at the Koktebel Jazz Party festival.27.08.2016#2922778
Pieces of cloth hanging from ropes contain prayers left by visitors to the Lone Poplar and eight Buddhist stupas, a revered site in Kalmykia.12.08.2016#2920310
A road section under construction from Highway M-25 to the Kerch Strait and Tavrida highway set to be built in future.12.08.2016#2911169
Theatrical show during a steam locomotive parade marking Railway Workers Day at Podmoskovnaya railway station.06.08.2016#2905261
Su-27 multi-purpose fighter jet during the Aviadarts-2016 competition held as part of International Army Games - 2016 at the Dubrovichi training field in the Ryazan Region.06.08.2016#2905225
Participants in a rally in Berlin against Angela Merkel policies under the slogan "Merkel Must Go."30.07.2016#2901357
The Second Rostec International Fireworks Festival in Moscow's Brateyevo Cascade Park.24.07.2016#2898632
City residents during the Rostec International Fireworks Festival at Moscow's Brateyevo Cascade Park.24.07.2016#2898603
Visitors seen here in the object "Rotonda" displayed at the international festival of landscape objects in Nikola-Lenivets, Kaluga Region.23.07.2016#2898292
A toy and flowers on the English embankment in Nice to commemorate the memory of victims of a terrorist attack in Nice on July 14, 2016, when a truck hit a crowd of people who celebrated the Bastille Day.16.07.2016#2894216
A teenager in a room inside a severely damaged high school in Shakhty 6/7 which became a shelter for local residents.09.07.2016#2891493
A woman in a room inside the severely damaged high school in Shakhty 6/7 which became a shelter for local residents.09.07.2016#2891478
People jump over a bonfire during Ivan Kupala Day celebrations in the village of Fadino in Russia's Omsk Region.08.07.2016#2889380
Russia. A tornado roared along the Ob River surface near Yugorsky Highway in Surgut. This phenomenon usually takes place after warm and cold airflows collide.06.07.2016#2888442
Launch of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle carrying the Soyuz-MS spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.06.07.2016#2888158
Idle discharge of water from Bureyskoe reservoir at Bureyskaya hydroelectric power plant as part of flood protection in the Far East.06.07.2016#2887937
Burned cars in the village of Lozovoye in the Donetsk Region, as a result of shelling by Ukrainian forces.05.07.2016#2887273
Chinese dance company for people with disabilities perform the dance "Guanyin with Thousand Arms" at the opening of the Chinese Culture Festival at the Russian Army Theater in Moscow.04.07.2016#2886862
An old brigantine with scarlet sails and fireworks at the school-leavers Scarlet Sails celebration in St. Petersburg.26.06.2016#2881350
A group of Chelsea Pensioners entering The Royal Hospital Chelsea polling station, to vote in the British referendum on whether to remain part of the European Union or leave.23.06.2016#2879498
June 22, 2016. Russian President Vladimir Putin lays flowers at the memorial to hero cities by the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander Garden.22.06.2016#2878860
Ivan Kupala performance at the Summer Solstice in Okunevo ethnic festival in the Omsk Region.21.06.2016#2877988
Players during a match at the Altai Republic Kok Boru championship at a racetrack in the village of Yelo, the Ongudaisky district, the Republic of Altai.17.06.2016#2877587
The Ilya Muromets Project 21180 diesel electric icebreaker built for the Russian Navy is floated out at Admiralteiskiye Shipyards, St. Petersburg.10.06.2016#2868055
The Arktika, the first vessel in the series of three Project 22220 LK-60 Nuclear Icebreakers being built by Baltic Shipyard Shipbuilding.10.06.2016#2868015
Presentation of the MC-21-300 mid-range aircraft at the Irkutsk Aircraft Plant (Irkut Corporation).08.06.2016#2866252
Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko is interviewed by journalists upon her arrival at the airport, Kiev.25.05.2016#2856112
Driver in the cabin of the Metro Poetry Train with a new exposition --"Shakespeare's Passions" -- devoted to the great British playwright at the Fili Line of the Moscow Metro.24.05.2016#2855388
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev observing the Ivan Aivazovsky painting "The Black Sea Fleet before the Crimean War at the Feodosia Roadstead" while visiting the Feodosia Picture Gallery named after Ivan Aivazovsky, in the course of his trip about the Crimean Federal District, May 23, 2016.23.05.2016#2854636
Foreign Ministry Official Spokesperson Maria Zakharova performs traditional Russian dance Kalinka in Sochi.19.05.2016#2851652
Immortal Regiment march on the 71st anniversary of Victory in Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) in Bishkek.09.05.2016#2842182
Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot ground-attack planes at the military parade to mark the 71st anniversary of Victory in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War.09.05.2016#2841947
Participant of the Immortal Regiment march held in Chita to mark the 71st anniversary of Victory in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War.09.05.2016#2841923
Composite female parade crew of the Defense Ministry’s Military University at a military parade to mark the 71st anniversary of Victory in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War, on Moscow's Red Square.09.05.2016#2841885
T-72BZ during the final practice of the military parade marking the 71st anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, on St. Petersburg's Palace Square.07.05.2016#2840406
Troops formations seen here on Red Square in Moscow during a practice of the military parade marking the 71st anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War.05.05.2016#2839027
A concert by the symphony orchestra of the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theater conducted by People's Artist of Russia Valery Gergiev at the Roman amphitheater of Palmyra, Syria liberated from the Islamic State terrorists.05.05.2016#2838964
The launch of the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with three Russian satellites - Lomonosov, Aist-2D and SamSat-218 - from the Vostochny Space Launch Center.28.04.2016#2833647
The 2S5 Giatsint 2S5 self-propelled guns shoot during a joint drill of the 5th Combined-Arms army of the Eastern Military District supported by the army aviation, bombers, fighter jets and long-range aircraft with Airborne Force units participation held at Sergeyevsky base in Primorsky Territory.23.04.2016#2830915
A delegation of the Largest Banner of Victory peace mission unveil a 1,056 square meter copy of the Banner of Victory on the North Pole ahead of celebrations of the 71st anniversary of the Great Victory.23.04.2016#2830713
Visitors attend the opening of the ROSIZO State Museum and Expo Center at the Culture Pavilion of the VDNKh All-Russia Exhibition Centre.21.04.2016#2829657
"La Fornarina" by Giulio Romano at the opening of Edouard Manet's "Olympia" exhibition of Museum d'Orsay in Moscow's State Museum of Fine Arts.18.04.2016#2827298
April 7, 2016. President Vladimir Putin attends the Russian Popular Front's third media forum, Truth and Justice, featuring independent regional and local media.07.04.2016#2820610
Syrian government army soldiers and militia are on the fringes of terrorist-held town of Al-Karyatein.02.04.2016#2818413
Old woman from the Plekhanovo Village, Tula Region, where locals attacked the Gazprom Company's associates on their coming to rebuild the damaged gas-main.17.03.2016#2808580
Maslenitsa festivities held on a square of the Cathedral of Transfiguration in Berdsk, Novosibirsk Region.13.03.2016#2805941
A model demonstrates new clothes from the SORRY, I'M NOT collection as part of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia in the Manezh Exhibition Hall, Moscow.12.03.2016#2805876
An unexploded World War II bomb is defused in a controlled explosion outside Sevastopol.11.03.2016#2805022
The landing of Soyuz TMA-18M capsule carrying the year-long mission crew members, Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Korniyenko, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and member of the long-term expedition 45/46 to the ISS Sergei Volkov. (Photo courtesy of the Russian Federal Space Agency's Press Service.)02.03.2016#2800363
People watch a fireworks display on Vorobyovy Hlls in Moscow to mark the Defender of the Fatherland Day.23.02.2016#2796761
President Vladimir Putin meeting with the Russian national bandy team at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence. The player Yevgeny Ivanushkin has given the president a Russian hockey bandy and ball as a gift, February 18, 2016.18.02.2016#2793453
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill during a visit to the Russian Bellingshausen polar station on King George island in Antarctica.18.02.2016#2793193
Circus clown Oleg Popov at the premiere of the performance 'Let the Sun Shine Always' at the Circus Ciniselli in St. Petersburg.12.02.2016#2790205
Roskosmos Cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Yury Malenchenko performing extravehicular activities on February 3, 2016.08.02.2016#2787363
A shepherd is seen here roping an untamed young horse on the winter range in Chumur-Oy, Tes-Khem district, Republic of Tuva.05.02.2016#2786111
WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange makes a speech before journalists and protesters from a balcony of Ecuador's Embassy in London.05.02.2016#2785917
Participants of the Omsk Region Open Sleddog Sports Championships (Siberian Cup stage) during the competitions in the village of Krutaya Gorka.30.01.2016#2782563
Darayya, a town in the suburbs of Damascus, where the Syrian Arab Army is fighting against terrorists.25.01.2016#2779787
The construction of the Kvarsis-Akvamir water park in Novosibirsk. Once in operation, the water park will be the largest in Russia.22.01.2016#2777195
Kremlin Ballet dancers during the final rehearsal of the La Bayadère show directed by choreographer Andris Liepa at the State Kremlin Palace.21.01.2016#2776945
Soldiers of the 1st Slavic militia brigade of the Donetsk People's Republic decorate a tree with bullets on a boundary with positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.07.01.2016#2770500
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia during a solemn liturgy dedicated to the great feast of Nativity at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.06.01.2016#2770113
