Actor Naeem Hayat in a scene from "Hamlet" performance staged by the Shakespeare's Globe Theater at the Moscow Academic Mayakovsky Theater during the opening of the Anton Chekhov International Festival British program held as part of Year of Russia-UK 2014.13.05.2014#2428669
City residents hold portraits of veterans of the Great Patriotic War during the Immortal Regiment event on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow.09.05.2014#2425901
Great Patriotic War veteran Vasily Kuzmenko, the last heroic soldier of the Panfilov Division, takes part in traditional Victory Day meeting at Moscow's Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure.09.05.2014#2425249
American conductor and opera administrator Kent Nagano during a concert with the Russian National Orchestra at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow.26.04.2014#2418465
World chess champion Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen, right, conducts simultaneous exhibition involving undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.08.04.2014#2409542
People at Maslenitsa festivities take part in a tug-of-war at the Museum of Wooden Architecture in Suzdal.01.03.2014#2390232
Maurizio Oioli (Italy) during the first run in the men’s skeleton at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.14.02.2014#2374050
Medalists in pairs skating at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi during the flower ceremony, from left: silver medalists Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov (Russia); gold medalists Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov (Russia).12.02.2014#2369622
Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radfiord (Canada) performing a short program in the pair skating competitions at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.11.02.2014#2368106
Athletes during the preliminary round of the men’s 1500m short track speed skating at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.10.02.2014#2366618
Athletes during a race in the A final round of the relay in men’s short track speed skating at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.10.02.2014#2365336
Ferruccio Furlanetto, top, as Don Quixote and Andrei Serov as Sancho Panza in a scene from the opera Don Quixote, a five-act heroic comedy with a libretto by Henri Caïn based on Jacques le Lorrain's play Knight of the Rueful Countenance and Miguel de Cervantes' novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, and staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater during the opening of the Golden Mask festival in Moscow.26.01.2014#2353045
Ballet dancers of the Mariinsky Theatre in a scene from the one-act ballet "The Rite of Spring" at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater. The ballet was presented at the opening of the Golden Mask festival in Moscow.25.01.2014#2352718
Mariinsky Theatre ballet dancers Svetlana Ivanova and Konstantin Zverev in a scene from the one-act ballet Concerto DSCH at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater. The ballet was presented at the opening of the Golden Mask festival in Moscow.25.01.2014#2352673