Members of delegation of China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television headed by president Xu Guang Chun of Renmin Ribao holding (center) take a walk in the Moscow Kremlin. 16.04.2002#98842
Moscow, September 6-12, 1998. The 100th Interparliamentary Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin took part in the official ceremony and declared the anniversary conference of the Interparliamentary Union open. Photo: Gennady Seleznyov, Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation's Federal Assembly, addresses the participants.07.09.1998#8889664
A visit by President of South Korea Kim Young-sam to Russia, June 1-June 3, 1994. Russian First Lady Naina Yeltsina, left, and South Korean First Lady Son Myung-soon are greeted in a bread and salt ceremony while visiting Solnyshko Childcare and Recreational Kindergarten No.754 in Moscow's Kuntsevo District.02.06.1994#6306520
A visit by a Turkish parliamentary delegation to Russia, August 19-25, 1992. From right: President of the Russian federation Boris Yetlsin and Speaker of Grand National Assembly of Turkey Husamettin Cindoruk during the meeting at the Moscow Kremlin.19.08.1992#6550885
Russian President Boris Yeltsin examines new Rostselmash farming machinery during his visit to the Krasnodar Region.22.07.1992#6550869
A visit by a Russian delegation to Buryatia, May 28-29, 1992. President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin tours Ulan-Ude Meat-Packing Plant, now Buryatmyasoprom.28.05.1992#6537302
A visit by a Russian delegation to Buryatia, May 28-29, 1992. President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin tours Ulan-Ude Meat-Packing Plant, now Buryatmyasoprom.28.05.1992#6537293
Russian President Boris Yeltsin tours Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant during his visit to the Vologda Region.30.04.1992#6537205
A meeting of the heads of the Supreme Councils (parliaments) of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Moscow. Chairman of the Russia Supreme Council Ruslan Khasbulatov.27.02.1992#8614008
A visit by a delegation of Brazil's National Congress, led by Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies Antonio Paes de Andrade, to the USSR. Members of the delegation led by Antonio Paes de Andrade, 3rd from right, are greeted in a traditional bread and salt welcome ceremony at the 40 Years of October Revolution Collective Farm in the Chuguyevsky District, Ukrainian SSR.27.09.1990#8814935
Moscow. Members of a Japanese parliamentary delegation headed by Speaker of the House of representatives, Yoshio Sakurauchi, visit the Soviet Union. In this photo, they are laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow.24.08.1990#8293157
Veniamin Yarin, a worker from Nizhny Tahil and a delegate of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in the conference hall.06.07.1990#8339364
Meeting in the House of Friendship with the Peoples of Foreign Countries (now the Reception House of the Government of the Russian Federation) representatives of the USSR-Afghanistan Friendship Society. Chair of the Soviet-Afghan Society for Friendship and Cultural Relations Yury Shaposhnikov is seen speaking.01.07.1990#8429225
Meeting in the House of Friendship with the Peoples of Foreign Countries (now the Reception House of the Government of the Russian Federation) representatives of the USSR-Afghanistan Friendship Society. Chair of the Soviet-Afghan Society for Friendship and Cultural Relations Yury Shaposhnikov is seen speaking.01.07.1990#8423908
Discussion at the Moscow delegates' club. Member V.Drovennikov, a philosophy professor, speaks.18.06.1990#8409797
Discussion at the Moscow delegates' club. Member K. Nikolayev, a bulldozer driver, speaks.18.06.1990#8409796
A roundtable discussion at Moscow Delegates' Club. member of the club and engineering designer S.Vinogradov makes a speech.18.06.1990#8409794
Moldavian SSR. Days of Soviet-Mozambique Friendship in Chisinau. Member of the executive committee of the Mozambican city of Beira Joao Batishta and Deputy Chair of the Executive Committee of the city of Bendery Lyudmila Mylnikova. Friendly handshake.01.05.1990#8301194
Moldavian SSR. Days of Soviet-Mozambique Friendship in Chisinau. Members of the executive committee of the Mozambican city of Beira delegation ahead of a meeting ceremony.01.05.1990#8301193
Moldavian SSR. Days of Soviet-Mozambique Friendship in Chisinau. Members of the executive committee of the Mozambican city of Beira delegation during the meeting ceremony.01.05.1990#8301192
Members of the Plenum of CPSU Central Committee held between the XXVII and XXVIII CPSU Congresses walking to a meeting at the Kremlin.11.03.1990#468307
Left: Yevgeny Gerasimov, Merited Artist of the RSFSR, film director and delegate of the Congress of Komsomol organizations of the RSFSR, which took place on February 15-18, 1990, visits the Youth and Culture discussion center.17.02.1990#6674706
The Congress of Komsomol organizations of the RSFSR, February 15-18, 1990. Secretary of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, chairman of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet's Committee on Youth Affairs, and chairman of the congress' organizing committee, Stanislav Smirnov, right, speaks to a correspondent of Novosti Press Agency (now Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency).15.02.1990#6674709
The Congress of Komsomol organizations of the RSFSR, which took place on February 15-18, 1990, and resolved that Komsomol organizations on the territory of the RSFSR should be voluntarily consolidated into the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League as part of the RSFSR. School student delegates develop a common stance.15.02.1990#6674703
The 45th meeting of the session of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance held in the People's Republic of Bulgaria on January 9-10, 1990. From right: Head of the Soviet delegation, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov during a meeting with Carlos Rodriguez, member of the Cuban Communist Party Executive Committee Politburo.09.01.1990#6653401
The 45th meeting of the session of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance held in the People's Republic of Bulgaria on January 9-10, 1990. Head of the Soviet delegation, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov during a meeting with Prime Minister of Romania Petre Roman, second left.09.01.1990#6653400
The 45th meeting of the session of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance held in the People's Republic of Bulgaria on January 9-10, 1990. From left: Head of the Soviet delegation, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov during a meeting with Prime Minister of the Mongolian People's Republic Dumaagiin Sodnom.09.01.1990#6653399
The 45th meeting of the session of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance held in the People's Republic of Bulgaria on January 9-10, 1990. Head of the Soviet delegation, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov during a meeting with his counterpart from Poland Tadeusz Mazowiecki, second left.09.01.1990#6654545
The 45th meeting of the session of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance held in the People's Republic of Bulgaria on January 9-10, 1990. Head of the Soviet delegation, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov ahead of the meeting.09.01.1990#6654541
The 45th meeting of the session of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance held in the People's Republic of Bulgaria on January 9-10, 1990. Members of the Soviet delegation led by Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov, fifth on the left.09.01.1990#6654540
The 45th meeting of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon) in the People's Republic of Bulgaria, January 9-10, 1990. Alexander Drabkin, observer of the Novosti Press Agency (APN, now Rossiya Segodnya), interviews Nikolai Ryzhkov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers and leader of the Soviet delegation, right.09.01.1990#6671038
The USSR Supreme Soviet Committee on International Affairs. Members of the committee meet with a delegation from the foreign policy commission of the Finnish parliament.26.10.1989#6616579
An official visit by Budimir Loncar, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, to the USSR. Budimir Loncar (4th left) meets with Eduard Shevardnadze (3rd right), Member of Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR.01.10.1989#6566949
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Ryzhkov meets with a delegation of the US Congress Committee on Agriculture. Nikolai Ryzhkov, 3rd right, and members of the US Congress during talks.18.09.1989#5549123
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Ryzhkov meets with a delegation of the US Congress Committee on Agriculture. Nikolai Ryzhkov, left, and member of the US Congress Eligio de la Garza.18.09.1989#5549122
Member of the First Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR (May 25 - June 9, 1989), Full Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Head of the Scientific and Methodological Center for Analytical Research at the Space Research Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences Roald Sagdeev. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now the State Kremlin Palace).01.06.1989#6744052
1st Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now the State Kremlin Palace), May 25 - June 9, 1989. Soviet theoretical physicist, Full Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Nobel Peace Prize winner, one of the creators of the first Soviet hydrogen bomb Andrei Sakharov speaking at the meeting.25.05.1989#8231109
May 25-June 9, 1989. The First Congress of USSR People's Deputies in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, now the State Kremlin Palace. Photo: People's Deputy Andrei Sakharov, Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, speaks from the rostrum.25.05.1989#8274964
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lenin All-Union Young Communist League, Viktor Mironenko, second left, meets with Leon Lev, First Secretary of the Uruguay Young Communist league, second right.05.03.1989#6645796
The visit by a delegation of New Zealand to the USSR, November 10-18, 1988. Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand Geoffrey Palmer, 2nd left, at the Gifts of the Sea seafood store in Vladivostok.18.11.1988#6589141
The visit by a delegation of New Zealand to the USSR, November 10-18, 1988. Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand Geoffrey Palmer, center, tours a submarine at the Museum of Military History of the Pacific Fleet in Vladivostok.18.11.1988#6589139
A meeting of the Soviet-Canadian Foreign Economic Commission in Moscow Members of the Canadian delegation take part in the meeting.01.10.1988#6287708
A delegation of the Japanese-Soviet Friendship Parliamentary Association visits the Soviet Union. A Soviet-Japanese roundtable meeting at the Moscow House of Friendship. Valentina Tereshkova, Chair of the Union of Soviet Friendship Societies and Cultural Links with Foreign Countris, first Soviet female cosmonaut and Hero of the Soviet Union, talks to Yoshio Sakurauchi, Chairman of the Japanese-Soviet Friendship Parliamentary Association, right.01.09.1988#6289060
A delegation of the Japanese-Soviet Friendship Parliamentary Association visits the Soviet Union. A Soviet-Japanese roundtable meeting at the Moscow House of Friendship. Delegation member Takashige Ishiguro.01.09.1988#6289058
The 4th meeting of members of the general public from the USSR and USA, New Political Thinking and Culture of International Relations, in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. Beckie and Fred Habenicht, a married couple from Chicago, celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary at Tbilisi Palace of Rituals.23.07.1988#8313455
The 4th meeting of members of the general public from the USSR and USA, New Political Thinking and Culture of International Relations. A honored senior priest of Riverside Church, an interdenominational baptist church in Upper West Side in Manhattan, NY, makes a speech.23.07.1988#8313454
The 4th meeting of members of the general public from the USSR and USA, New Political Thinking and Culture of International Relations, in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. Georgian guests cook barbecue for American guests.23.07.1988#8313453
The 4th meeting of members of the general public from the USSR and USA, New Political Thinking and Culture of International Relations, in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. US guests Lynn McBryter and Dereck McBryter visit a Georgian family.23.07.1988#8313452
The 4th meeting of members of the general public from the USSR and USA, New Political Thinking and Culture of International Relations, in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. delegates are seen in a city summer cafe.23.07.1988#8313451
The 4th meeting of members of the general public from the USSR and USA, New Political Thinking and Culture of International Relations, in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. From right: US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State M. Simmons and Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the USSR Commission for UNESCO, Anatoly Adamashin, during their meeting with delegates.23.07.1988#8313450
The 4th meeting of members of the general public from the USSR and USA, New Political Thinking and Culture of International Relations, in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. Michael Collins, an American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon, speaks to journalists.23.07.1988#8313449
The 4th meeting of members of the general public from the USSR and USA, New Political Thinking and Culture of International Relations. A staged performance during the welcoming ceremony for US guests in Tbilisi Airport (currently Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International Airport), Georgian SSR.23.07.1988#8313448
The 4th meeting of members of the general public from the USSR and USA, New Political Thinking and Culture of International Relations. Center: Valentina Tereshkova, the world's first woman in space and Hero of the Soviet Union, greets US delegates in Tbilisi Airport (currently Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International Airport), Georgian SSR.23.07.1988#8313447
The 4th meeting of members of the general public from the USSR and USA, New Political Thinking and Culture of International Relations. Soviet delegates say farewell to US guests in Tbilisi Airport (currently Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International Airport), Georgian SSR.23.07.1988#8313446
The 4th meeting of members of the general public from the USSR and USA, New Political Thinking and Culture of International Relations. American delegates are seen in Tbilisi Airport (currently Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International Airport), Georgian SSR, before flying back to the USA.23.07.1988#8313445
American guests on a visit to Merited Artist of the Georgian SSR Zurab Lezhava as part of the 4th meeting of members of the general public from the USSR and USA, New Political Thinking and Culture of International Relations, in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR.23.07.1988#8312953
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Gennady Kolbin speaks at the presidium meeting of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.18.07.1988#5639351
19th All-Union Conference of Soviet Communist Party (June 28 - July 1, 1988) at the Kremlin Palace of Congress (now State Kremlin Palace). Svyatoslav Fyodorov, delegate, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Director of the Eye Microsurgery Cross-Industrial Research and Technology Center, talks to Raisa Gorbachev, the wife of Mikhail Gorbachev, Secretary-General of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.01.07.1988#6568751
The 19th Party Conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. June 28 - July 1, 1988. Delegates during the voting in the convention hall.01.07.1988#3049669
The 19th Party Conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. June 28 - July 1, 1988. Conference delegates from the Turkmen SSR, machine operator from the Chardzhou Region Nurdzhamal Seyidova and weaver from the Chardzhou weaving combine Freshgul Rayimova, right.01.07.1988#3049667
