December 18, 2012. December 10, 2012.Moscow,Russia. Pictured:Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with trustees in Moscow.
 

November 29, 2012. The first Cossack patrol started working near the Belorusskiy railway station in central Moscow. A group of unarmed men will search for illegally parked cars and unlicensed street vendors, the city authorities said. However, it will be up to the police to enforce the law as the Cossacks have no right to force anyone to do anything. Pictured: November 27,2012. Moscow,Russia. Cossack patrol speaking with unlicensed street vendors near the Belorusskiy railway station .
 

November 26, 2012. November 24,2012. Borisov region of Belarus. Pictured: Historical reconstruction of The Battle of Berezina. The Battle of Berezina (or Beresina) took place from 26 to 29 November 1812, between the French army of Napoleon, retreating after his invasion of Russia and crossing the Berezina (near Borisov, Belarus), and the Russian armies under Mikhail Kutuzov, Peter Wittgenstein and Admiral Pavel Chichagov.
 

November 21, 2012. November 13,2012. Moscow,Russia. Pictured: First Russia`s President Mikhail Gorbachev presenting his new book `Alone With Myself`.
 

November 20, 2012. Rebecca Mieliwocki,the 2012 US National Teacher of the Year visits Moscow.
 

November 14, 2012. November 10,2012. Moscow,Russia. The opening of the Christmas toys market `Royal Fairytale`. Pictured: Danish designer Helle Brink, a supplier of the Christmas toys for Royal Courts of the United Kingdom and Denmark.
 

November 06, 2012. November 04,2012. Moscow,Russia. Members of Russian ultra radical nationalist organizations conducted large-scale protests under racist slogans in Moscow and other major cities of Russia. Pictured: members of ultra nationalistic organizations at the rally in Moscow.
 

October 22, 2012. According to Nadezhda Tolokonnikova`s husband Pyotr Verzilov, Russia`s punk band Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was sent to Mordivia prison camp to serve imprisonment. Pictured: June 20,2012.Moscow,Russia. The Tagansky Court of Moscow. Cort hearings over the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot. Pussy riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (back) at the hearings in The Court. Russia`s punk band Pussy Riot sentenced to two years in prison for hooliganism. The three members of girl punk band Pussy Riot are facing charges of hooliganism for performing a punk song in Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral earlier this year.
 

October 19, 2012. Russia`s Left Front leader Sergei Udaltsov is being investigated for provoking mass unrest and for organising terrorist attacks. Pictured: October 17,2012. Moscow,Russia. Russian opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov escorted by police officers getting out of his house right after the search in his apartment was conducted by police forces.
 

October 12, 2012. Russia`s punk band Pussy Riot sentenced to two years in prison for hooliganism. The three members of girl punk band Pussy Riot are facing charges of hooliganism for performing a punk song in Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral earlier this year. Pictured: January 20,2012.Moscow,Russia. Russia`s punk band Pussy Riot conducted anti Putin action in front of the Kremlin in central Moscow.
 

October 05, 2012. July 18,2012. Siberia, Tomsk city of Russia. Medical prison in Tomsk of Russia. The Toms medical prison is a facility providing specialized medical treatment to male offenders who are improsoned for serious crime. The Toms medical prison is providing medical treatment to those criminals who are suffering tuberculosis . Pictured: doctors and a prisoner.
 

October 01, 2012. September 22,2012.Moscow,Russia. Pictured: activists of Russian Communist Party protested with portraits of Stalin against raise of housing tariffs that Russian authorities are planning to do.
 

September 05, 2012. August 27,2012. Minsk,Belarus. Belly Parade 2012 in Belarus. Pictured: pregnant Belarus women with painted bellies.
 

September 05, 2012. September 02,2012.Russia, Borodino of Moscow region. Celebrations of 200th Anniversary of Borodino Battle. Reconstruction of the 1812 Borodino Battle .
 

August 27, 2012. Nearly 15 years after her death, Princess Diana`s memory still stirs interest and emotion. Pictured: Moscow,Russia. Princess Diana when visitng Moscow in June 1995.