A woman under an umbrella walks on a street during rain in Moscow, Russia. On August 8, the capital experienced adverse weather conditions, with occasional heavy rainfall of up to 20 millimetres and thunderstorms.08.08.2024#8740072
Concert devoted to Russia Day is held at the main venue of the International Slavic Bazaar Music Festival in Vitebsk.12.07.2008#323308
Presidents Jacques Chirac of France, left, and Vladimir Putin of Russia at Le Bourget, Paris, before unveiling the monument to the Normandie-Niemen WWII air regiment22.09.2006#134418
First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Colonel-General Yuri Baluevski at presentation of joint RIA Novosti-Defense Ministry information-analytical publication Russian Military Review. 27.04.2004#109114
Awarding the For Courage and Love for Fatherland Badge of the Georgy Zhukov Foundation, at the Russian Union of Journalists. Awarding the badge to Boris Uvarov, Senior Investigator of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office.07.05.2003#6494302
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, held a working meeting in the Kremlin with Minister of the Interior Vladimir Rushailo, who informed the President about his trip to the Chechen Republic.20.12.2000#8947577
State Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznyov talks to MPs Artur Chilingarov and Alexander Lebedev, from left.17.12.1995#5624873
Gennady Zyuganov, Russian Communist Party leader, center, and Colonel-General Vladislav Achalov, right, address the public from the House of Soviets balcony during the October 1993 confrontation on the Russian top01.10.1993#76351
Victory Day celebrations near Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. By tradition, veterans of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 have gathered near the Bolshoi Theater.09.05.1992#3054887
The international poster exhibition Humans, Nature, Society at the Central House of Artists, now the New Tretyakov Gallery, on Moscow's Krymsky Val Street.24.01.1992#8238455
The international poster exhibition Humans, Nature, Society at the Central House of Artists, now the New Tretyakov Gallery, on Moscow's Krymsky Val Street.24.01.1992#8238454
First lady of the USSR Raisa Gorbachev, second left, visits a service center for veterans and people with disabilities in Moscow.05.04.1991#8197697
First lady of the USSR Raisa Gorbachev, second right, visits a service center for veterans and people with disabilities in Moscow.05.04.1991#8197692
First lady of the USSR Raisa Gorbachev, left, visits a service center for veterans and people with disabilities in Moscow.05.04.1991#8197691
First lady of the USSR Raisa Gorbachev, left, visits a service center for veterans and people with disabilities in Moscow.05.04.1991#8197690
First lady of the USSR Raisa Gorbachev, right, visits a service center for veterans and people with disabilities in Moscow.05.04.1991#8197685
First lady of the USSR Raisa Gorbachev, left, visits a service center for veterans and people with disabilities in Moscow.05.04.1991#8197681
February 23-March 2, 1991. The 2nd All-Union Festival of Soviet Screen Actors Sozvezdiye (Constellation)-1991 in Smolensk.23.02.1991#8227697
On February 19-20, 1991, the All-Union Congress of Directors and Managers of Enterprises of All Types of Property was held on the initiative of the Science and Industry Union of the USSR, now the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.19.02.1991#8227561
People's Deputy of the USSR Oleg Kalugin, center, at an exhibition of Kuban artists.10.11.1990#5639479
Colonel General Nikolai Shlyaga, Chief of the Main Political Department of the Soviet Army and Navy.22.10.1990#8335784
October 20-21, 1990. The constituent congress of Democratic Russia movement at the Rossiya movie theater in Moscow. Photo: Major General Oleg Kalugin (Reserve) from the State Security Committee (KGB) of the USSR attends the congress.20.10.1990#6688594
UN Under-Secretary-General Yasushi Akashi, left, planting an alley in the Krasnodar Botanical Garden with workers of the Krasnodar Territory Peace Committee (local branch of the Russian Peace Foundation).16.08.1990#8340987
The 11th World Mass Media Conference at the Center for International Trade and Scientific and Technical Cooperation with Foreign Countries, April 9-13, 1990.09.04.1990#6714177
The 3rd Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, which took place on March 12-15, 1990 at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now State Kremlin Palace) to consider the introduction of the post of President of the USSR and the president's election. Congress participants speak to General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev.12.03.1990#6669867
Ethnic pogrom involving mass violence against the Armenian population on February 12-14, 1990, in Dushanbe, Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. Major General Vitaly Zimin calls for public order.14.02.1990#6669350
Opening of the Sunday Orthodox University founded by Archpriest Alexander Men (now the Alexander Men Public Orthodox University) in Moscow.10.11.1989#8219708
Opening of the Sunday Orthodox University founded by Archpriest Alexander Men (now the Alexander Men Public Orthodox University) in Moscow.10.11.1989#8219705
Opening of the Sunday Orthodox University founded by Archpriest Alexander Men (now the Alexander Men Public Orthodox University) in Moscow.10.11.1989#8219704
Meeting of the Commission of the Congress of People's Deputies to Check Materials Linked with the Activities of the Investigative Squad of the Soviet Prosecutor-General's Office headed by Telman Gdlyan. Center: The Commission's Co-Chairs, People's Deputies of the USSR, journalist Roy Medvedev, left, and Senior Investigator of the Prosecutor's Office of the Kursk Region Nikolai Strukov.20.10.1989#6556152
From left: General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Member of Politburo of the Polish United Workers' Party and Prime Minister of the Polish People's Republic Mieczysław Rakowski during their meeting in the Kremlin.11.10.1989#8166382
Moscow Music Peace Festival, an international event at the Luzhniki Stadium organized by the Soviet Peace Committee, the Stas Namin Center, the Make a Difference Foundation (US) and the Kramer Music international firm, August 12-13, 1989.12.08.1989#8206316
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
Visit by a Spanish delegation to the USSR. Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, third right, and USSR Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, center right, during talks with Foreign Minister of Spain Francisco Ordóñez, left, at the Kremlin.03.03.1989#5639359
Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union hears a criminal case against Interior Ministry employees charged with bribery, abuse of office and other crimes. Former head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Khorezm Regional Executive Committee, Police Major General S. Sabirov, left, in the dock.05.09.1988#6610593
Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union hears a criminal case against Interior Ministry employees charged with bribery, abuse of office and other crimes. Former First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Yury Churbanov, left, in the dock.05.09.1988#6610587
Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union hears a criminal case against Interior Ministry employees charged with bribery, abuse of office and other crimes. Former Minister of Internal Affairs of the Uzbek SSR Khaidar Yakhyayev in the dock.05.09.1988#6610585
A 1929 Oldsmobile on display at the International Convention of Vintage Cars and Motorcycles in Riga, the Latvian SSR.10.08.1988#8305416
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
Members of the general public from the USSR and USA at their 4th meeting, New Political Thinking and Culture of International Relations, in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR.23.07.1988#8313444
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. The flags of participating countries and the union republic are displayed on a city street.23.07.1988#8313443
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
The 19th All-Union Conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Kremlin Palace of Congresses, June 28 - July 1, 1988. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev.28.06.1988#6572959
The 19th All-Union Conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Kremlin Palace of Congresses, June 28 - July 1, 1988. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev.28.06.1988#6572955
