Pictured: photo portraits of Ludmila Putina - wife of russian president Putin young and today(r)and her husband Vladimir Putin (l) in a book `Powerful University Graduates`. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila announced their divorce on Thursday, June 06,2013 after nearly 30 years of marriage.

Tennis star Maria Sharapova launched Sugarpova Premium Line of Gummy Candies. Pictured: April 29,2013. Maria Sharapova at her brand Sugarpova presentation in Lotte Plaza Mall of Moscow,Russia.

Beauty Contest `Chechen Beauty` (Miss Chechnya) in Grozny

January 09,2013.St.Petersburg,Russia. Pictured: Steve Jobs Memorial opened in St.Petersburg,Russia.The memorial was opened in the campus of the St. Petersburg National Research University for Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics.

At the Maternity Hospital in St.Petersburg

Reconstruction of the battle of lake Peipus.

Eros - Moscow 2006 Exhibition

Russian tennis player Dmitry Tursunov put Russia into the Davis Cup final after holding off american Andy Roddick in Moscow on Sunday, September 24.

Russian Fashion Week.

Pictured: Aurora over Murmansk city of Russia. An aurora is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere (thermosphere).