Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the 25th ceremony to award Faith and Fidelity International Prize of St. Andrew the First-Called Foundation.18.12.2017#3260614
A Soyuz-FG rocket launches the Soyuz-MS-07 manned spacecraft from the Baikonur Space Center.17.12.2017#3259407
Motorway and railway arches of the under-construction Crimean Bridge over the central navigational channel in the Kerch Strait.03.12.2017#3249294
A Rohingya woman at the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp on the Myanmar-Bangladesh border06.11.2017#3241657
November 20, 2017. From left: Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.21.11.2017#3239886
Mi-8 AMTSh "Terminator" helicopters are seen here during the joint anti-terror drill of the Collective Rapid Reaction Force of the Collective Security Treaty Organization's member states at the Kharbmaidon base in Tajikistan.17.11.2017#3238692
November 15, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin and singer Filipp Kirkorov, recipient of the Order of Honor, at the ceremony to present state awards to workers in science, culture, arts and education, cosmonauts, officials, doctors and heads of enterprises.15.11.2017#3235980
November 15, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at New Jerusalem Monastery of Resurrection in Istra, the Moscow Region.15.11.2017#3235896
Rehearsal of the march marking the 76th anniversary of the 1941 parade on Red Square in Moscow.02.11.2017#3227227
A battle march during qualification tests for the right to wear crimson and dark green beret among the special purpose detachment of the Federal National Guard Troops Service conducted at Gorny training center in the Novosibirsk Region.19.10.2017#3216919
Opening ceremony of the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS) at the Bolshoy Ice Palace in Sochi.15.10.2017#3213082
October 11, 2017. President Vladimir Putin, right, meets with President and Prime Minister of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, third left.11.10.2017#3210021
The opening ceremony of the 7th The Circle of Light Moscow international festival held on the Ostankino pond in Moscow.23.09.2017#3198701
September 22, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin examines the "Urban transport - future perspectives" exhibition on the premises of Zavolzhye industrial park in Uluanovsk region.22.09.2017#3197866
Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's ex-president and former governor of the Odessa region, leaves a train car at the train station in Przemyśl, Poland. Left: Yulia Tymoshenko, leader of the All-Ukrainian Association Batkivshchyna.10.09.2017#3190350
September 9, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Zaryadye landscape park in Moscow. Left: Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.09.09.2017#3189046
Joe Lastie’s New Orleans Sound band member during a concert at the Koktebel Jazz Party 2017 festival.19.08.2017#3173805
A priest sprinkling worshippers with holy water during the service on Transfiguration of Jesus Day at the Transfiguration Cathedral in Khabarovsk.19.08.2017#3173497
August 8, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the annual international tournament League S-70 in Sochi.08.08.2017#3168246
A flyboardist at the Extreme Crimea 2017 festival of extreme sports at Cape Tarkhankut.05.08.2017#3166745
Russian President Vladimir Putin fishing at the cascade of mountain lakes in the Republic of Tyva, during his vacation on August 1-3.05.08.2017#3166085
A polar bear on the premises of a polar station on the shore of Tikhaya Bay. Hooker Island of the Franz Josef Land archipelago (photo made through glass).28.07.2017#3164679
An RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launcher in action on board the Kabardino-Balkaria ASW corvette during the military and sports celebration to mark Russian Navy Day in Baltiysk.30.07.2017#3163371
July 21, 2017. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev examined an unmanned shuttle of the Shuttle project developed by the NAMI Central Automobile and Automotive Engine Research Institute.21.07.2017#3155923
Fursan Al Emarat national aerobatic team of the United Arab Emirates performs demonstration flight at International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2017 in Zhukovsky.19.07.2017#3154517
A staff member of Avialesookhrana of the Republic of Buryatia seen as a forest fire is extinguished in Buryatia's Kabansky district.09.07.2017#3149254
July 7, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of the USA Donald Trump, right, talk on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg.07.07.2017#3148019
A fireworks display at the 14th Usadba Jazz Festival hosted by the Arkhangelskoye Museum-Estate.01.07.2017#3144417
June 22, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a ceremony to lay wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow's Alexander Garden on the Day of Memory and Grief.22.06.2017#3136898
Wild rosemary (Ledum palustre) blooms in the forest near Peschanka, Trans-Baikal Territory.16.05.2017#3102381
A worker at the New Tone agricultural equipment workshop in Volzhsk, Volgograd Region.16.05.2017#3100593
A Russian Emergencies Ministry rescuer practices rescue operations under the INSARAG Guidelines and Methodology endorsed by the United Nations.12.05.2017#3097465
Gene Simmons of Kiss rock group performs at a concert in the Olimpiysky Arena, Moscow.01.05.2017#3088889
Irina Pegova as Katerina Ilvovna in the play "Katerina Ilvovna" based on the story "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" by Nikolai Leskov and directed by Alla Sigalova at the Tabakov Theater.26.04.2017#3083834
Participants in a torchlight procession held in Yerevan in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide committed in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.23.04.2017#3081697
Setting up the Soyuz FG rocket carrying the Soyuz MS-04 manned spacecraft on Gagarin's Start launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome.17.04.2017#3075847
Soldiers during a military parade marking the 105th birthday of Kim Il-Sung, the founder of North Korea, in Pyongyang.15.04.2017#3074175
Participants in a military parade marking the 105th birthday of Kim Il-Sung, the founder of North Korea, in Pyongyang.15.04.2017#3074160
Participants of the Commemoration and solidarity rally, Saint Petersburg, we are with you.06.04.2017#3067398
The launching ceremony for the nuclear submarine cruiser Kazan of the Russian Navy in Severodvinsk.31.03.2017#3061229
Participants in a rally in support of Serbian presidential candidate Vojislav Seselj in Serbia's Novi Sad.29.03.2017#3060385
March 29, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Polar Pilots Ice Cave on Alexandra Land Island in the Franz Josef Land Archipelago.29.03.2017#3059837
A view of the Moscow City international business center before the lights were turned off as part of the 2017 Earth Hour in Moscow.25.03.2017#3057190
A participant in the Omsk Region's Open Championship for Bodybuilding, Body Fitness, Fitness and Fitness-Bikini held at the Khimik youth center in Omsk.18.03.2017#3052988
Models before a fashion show featuring Firdaws Fashion House's new 2017-18 fall/winter season collection by fashion designer Aishat Kadyrova during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia at Petroff (Petrovsky) Palace.17.03.2017#3052113
A commemorative event in Moscow on the 64th anniversary of Joseph Stalin's death lays flowers at his grave.05.03.2017#3043323
Syrian soldiers are seen here near the historical architectural complex of the ancient city of Palmyra in Homs Governorate, Syria. Palmyra was captured by the army of the Syrian Arab Republic with a support from the Russian Air Force. Maximum quality available.02.03.2017#3041821
February 23, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin at the wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin Wall on the Defender of the Fatherland Day.23.02.2017#3036306
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#3034553
A whooper swan spends the winter on Lake Lebedinoye at the Lebediny state nature reserve in the Altai Territory.27.01.2017#3018682
Domes of the Cathedral of the Holy Mandylion and skyscrapers of the Moscow City Business Center.25.01.2017#3015776
People's Artist of Russia, prima ballerina Svetlana Zakharova during rehearsal as Aurora in 'Sleeping Beauty' at the original Bolshoi Theatre stage.19.01.2017#3012647
The crash site of the MyCargo Airlines aircraft which crashed near Manas airport, in the village of Dacha-Suu, Sokuluk district, Chuy region near Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The plane was en route from Hong Kong to Istanbul. Highest quality possible.16.01.2017#3010430
Children during the winter festivity of Christmas fortune telling and carol singing in Petrovskoye village in the Chelyabinsk Region.07.01.2017#3007475
