Russia's Entrepreneurial Council held session at the Government House today. Left to right, Vagit Alekperov, LUKoil petroleum company CEO; Pyotr Aven, Alfa Bank President; and Alexander Zhukov, federal Deputy Prime Minister 10.02.2006#123041
Chairman of the Russian Federation Council of the Federal Assembly Sergei Mironov during a break in the autumn session's final meeting of the Third Convocation State Duma.28.11.2003#6495015
Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov, center, visits an exhibition by Russian entrepreneurs before a meeting of the Presidential Council on Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.25.11.2003#6494933
Fourth right: Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov visits Domodedovo International Airport.13.11.2003#6494842
The Days of the Senate of the Kazakhstani Parliament in the Russian Federation Council, October 29-30, 2003. Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov speaks in the upper chamber of the Russian parliament.29.10.2003#6494863
The Days of the Senate of the Kazakhstani Parliament in the Russian Federation Council, October 29-30, 2003. Members of the Kazakh delegation before a meeting.29.10.2003#6494861
News conference with Akhmar Zavgayev, representative of the Chechen Republic in the Federation Council, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Economic Policy, Entrepreneurship and Property.15.10.2003#6494785
Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly Alexander Torshin, center, during a meeting.08.10.2003#6494779
Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov chairs a meeting with legislative authorities of the Russian regions on developing 2004 federal and regional budgets.11.08.2003#6494517
The opening of the Senator Lounge arranged by the federation Council press service and Moscow Union of Journalistsas a permanent platform for Federation Council member to communicate with the media. Federation Council member Nikolai Tulayev, center, and Moscow Union of Journalists' Viktor Cheryomukhin, left, and Naum Aranovich, right, during a news conference at the Central Journalist House.29.06.2003#6494418
Members of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation are seen here ahead of the plenary meeting.25.06.2003#6494417
A plenary meeting of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.25.06.2003#6494416
Members of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation during the performance of the Russian national anthem at the last plenary meeting of the spring session.25.06.2003#6494411
A meeting of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on the theme "Transportation management in the Russian Federation."04.06.2003#6494424
Ivan Starikov, member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federal Assembly, Chairman of the Committee on Agricultural and Food Policy, speaks during a plenary session.26.05.2003#6494318
A meeting of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, chaired by Mikhail Margelov.23.05.2003#6494325
Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov during a news conference at the press center of the Argumenty i Fakty newspaper.15.05.2003#6494326
Parliamentary hearings in the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on possible transition of the Russian economy to the International Financial Reporting Standards.16.04.2003#6491389
Members of the of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia observe a moment of silence in commemoration of Yakutia schoolchildren who died in a fire in the town of Sydybyl on April 8, 2003. The victims are 22 senior students who were saving junior schoolchildren.09.04.2003#6491290
Members of the of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia observe a moment of silence ahead of the plenary meeting in tribute to Yakutia schoolchildren who died in a fire in the town of Sydybyl on April 8, 2003. The victims are 22 senior students who were saving junior schoolchildren.09.04.2003#6491285
A plenary session of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia which was preceded by a moment of silence in commemoration of Yakutia schoolchildren who died in a fire in the town of Sydybyl on April 8, 2003. The victims are 22 senior students who were saving junior schoolchildren.09.04.2003#6491289
Meeting of the State Council. The Alexander Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. May 29, 2001. President Vladimir Putin during a State Council meeting on the housing and utilities sector reform.29.05.2001#3250347
Meeting of the State Council. The Alexander Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. May 29, 2001. From left: Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, Head of Karelia Sergei Katanandov, Governor of the Jewish Autonomous Region Nikolai Volkov and Head of Kabardino-Balkaria Valery Kokov during a State Council meeting on the housing and utilities sector reform.29.05.2001#3250346
Meeting of the State Council. The Alexander Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. May 29, 2001. President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and Secretary of the State Council Alexander Abramov, right, during a State Council meeting on the housing and utilities sector reform.29.05.2001#3250345
Meeting of the State Council. The Alexander Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. May 29, 2001. President Vladimir Putin during a meeting of the State Council on the housing and utilities sector reform.29.05.2001#3250344
Moscow. The buildings of the Federation Council on Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street were built in 1983 to a design by architects I. A. Pokrovsky and Y. A. Sverdlovsky.17.05.1999#8889638
A meeting of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.17.05.1999#8889636
A domestic political conflict in Russia (September 21 - October 4, 1993): dispersal of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation. Colonel General Albert Makashov, who took part in the events on October 3-4 together with the deputies of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Council, talks to journalists at the White House.04.10.1993#6292073
A domestic political conflict in Russia (September 21 - October 4, 1991): dispersal of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation. The White House (House of Soviets) after the assault.04.10.1993#6293673
A domestic political conflict in Russia (September 21 - October 4, 1991): dispersal of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation. The government troops arrest a sniper who shot at civilians.04.10.1993#6293672
A domestic political conflict in Russia (September 21 - October 4, 1991): dispersal of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation. Sandwiches and water for the deputies protecting the White House.04.10.1993#6293670
The constitutional crisis of 1993 in the Russian Federation, September 21 - October 4, 1993, the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation are disbanded. The National Salvation Front opposition movement holds a picket outside the House of Soviets.21.09.1993#6295991
The constitutional crisis of 1993 in the Russian Federation, September 21 - October 4, 1993, the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation are disbanded. Defenders of the House of Soviets (the White House).21.09.1993#6295990
Rallies and pickets during the 9th Congress of People's Deputies of Russia. March 26—29, 1993. A rally against the policy of Boris Yeltsin outside the building of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation (the House of Soviets).28.03.1993#3230243
Rallies and pickets during the 9th Congress of People's Deputies of Russia. March 26—29, 1993. A rally against the policy of Boris Yeltsin outside the building of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation (the House of Soviets)28.03.1993#3230242
Rallies and pickets during the 9th Congress of People's Deputies of Russia. March 26—29, 1993. A rally against the policy of Boris Yeltsin outside the building of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation (the House of Soviets).28.03.1993#3230241
Rallies and pickets during the 9th Congress of People's Deputies of Russia. March 26—29, 1993. A rally against the policy of Boris Yeltsin outside the building of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation (the House of Soviets) on Krasnopresnenskya Embankment. Chairman of the Officers' Union Stanislav Terekhov addresses the participants.28.03.1993#3230237
Rallies and pickets during the 9th Congress of People's Deputies of Russia. March 26—29, 1993. A rally against the policy of Boris Yeltsin outside the building of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation on Krasnopresnenskya Embankment.28.03.1993#3230236
Federal Republic of Germany Bundesrat Speaker Bjorn Engholm, Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein State, visits the Soviet Union. He is seen here meeting with Yevgeny Primakov, a Candidate Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Speaker of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the USSR.26.09.1989#6549190
Members of the delegation of the Union of Municipal Deputies of Brazil meet with Chairman of the Executive Committee of Ulyanovsk Region's Council Yury Goryachev, 4th left, during their visit to the USSR.15.05.1988#6567082
The house of prayer of Evangelical Christian Baptists in Rostov-on-Don (today's Central Church of Evangelical Christian Baptists in Rostov-on-Don). A meeting of the church council. From left: Viktor Dolmatov, Gennady Tyulyandin, Alexei Likhikh, Chair Viktor Lychkin and Yevgeny Dreval.01.02.1988#5828270
Vyacheslav Protsenko, First Secretary of the Slobodzeya District Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova, Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR, with his family (Slobodzeya district - now the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic).22.03.1981#8395978
The park outside the Council House on Lenin Square (now Republic Square) in Cheboksary, the capital of the Chuvashian ASSR.13.07.1980#8316427
The new city of Ust-Ilimsk built with participation of CMEA-countries: Bulgaria, Hungary, GDR, Poland, Romania.15.04.1974#5503416
Soviet builders discuss a new housing project in the rural settlement of Bolshoi Tolkai located in the south of Pokhvistnevsky district, the Samara Region.10.01.1973#5642513
Artistic Council meeting at the Republican Fashion House of the Kazakh SSR Light Industry Ministry.22.08.1971#5674174
A delegation of Rome City Council visits Moscow. Head of the delegation, Rome Mayor Amerigo Petrucci, 4th right, and his wife are seen at Moscow City Council. Chairman of the Executive Committee of Moscow Council of People's Deputies Vladimir Promyslov, 3rd left, tells Italian guests about Moscow's urban development prospects.14.11.1966#5938412
Far left: Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow City Soviet / Council of People's Deputies Vladimir Promyslov shows a model of a new city district to members of a delegation of Nepal's National Panchayat (Parliament).20.08.1966#5885445
Valentin Bashinsky, head of the public utilities commission of a locality in the Mytishchi District, reports on performance at the Mytishchi City Council.15.01.1965#5752334
