Opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, left, and Vladimir Ryzhkov, co-chairman of the Republican Party of Russia – People's Freedom Party (RPR-PARNAS), during a rally organized by the opposition's coordinating council in support of the prisoners convicted of the criminal offense of the mass riots on Bolotnaya Square in Novopushkinsky Garden.06.04.2013#1437587
Nikolai Ryzhkov, chairman of the Commission on Natural Monopolies, attending a plenary meeting of the Federation Council on the federal law "On the Victory Banner." 04.05.2007#152271
State Duma Deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov near the building of the Meshchansky district court during the announcement of the verdict to Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev.19.05.2005#117007
State Duma deputies Gennady Zyuganov (left) and Vladimir Ryzhkov at parliamentary hearings on election legislation prospects.19.10.2004#112498
Vladimir Ryzhkov, State Duma deputy, attending a meeting on the media's role following the latest terrorist attacks in Russia. 14.09.2004#111832
Yevgeny Zhiburdt, director of Russian Health Ministry's Blood Transfusion Center (right), and oldest Russian blood donor Sergei Ryzhkov attend "Best Russian Blood Donor" awards ceremony that was timed to coincide with World Blood Donor Day.18.06.2004#110423
Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Nikolai Ryzhkov is seen here with colleagues ahead of a plenary session.18.06.2003#6494404
Independent deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov suggests his draft of the bill "On Political Parties" for the consideration of the State Duma.07.02.2001#24056
Members of presidium of the 7th congress of All-Russian public and political movement "Our home is Russia" (NDR) (left to right): deputy chairman of NDR political council Vladimir Ryzhkov, NDR leader Viktor Chernomyrdin and Saratov region governor Dmitry Ayatskov.28.08.1999#84344
Russian First Vice Premier Nikolai Aksyonenko meeting with Nikolai Ryzhkov, head of the socio-political movement "People's Power" and KPRF faction leader Gennady Zyuganov. 07.06.1999#2831
Acting prime minister of Russia Sergei Stepashin (left) talking to the deputy chairman of the political council of "Our home - Russia" movement Vladimir Ryzhkov (right).18.05.1999#85185
Viktor Chernomyrdin, leader of the Our Home is Russia movement (right), and his first deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov. 24.04.1999#43625
Vladimir Ryzhkov, deputy chairman of Our House is Russia movement, attends its sixth congress.24.04.1999#6554
Parliamentary factions and movements leaders before a meeting with Russian Prime-Minister Yevgeny Primakov. The House of Government of the Russian Federation.26.03.1999#885627
Russian Prime-Minister Yevgeny Primakov, center, meeting with parliamentary factions and movements leaders. The House of Government of the Russian Federation.01.02.1999#885624
Deputy chairman of the political council of "Our home - Russia" movement Vladimir Ryzhkov.01.01.1999#85177
CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) leader Gennady Zyuganov (left) and 'Narodovlastiye' (People's Rule) leader Nikolai Ryzhkov (right).31.08.1998#33357
Left: First Deputy Speaker of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Vladimir Ryzhkov and Deputy Board Chairman of RIA Novosti Alexander Andrachnikov, right, during a news conference at the RIA Novosti agency (now the Rossiya Segodnya International Media Group).01.06.1998#8697721
Vladimir Ryzhkov, first deputy chairman of the Russian State Duma, at a meeting of the Our House is Russia party's political council. 25.03.1998#6628
Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov (right) talks to Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Russian Communist Party (left), and Nikolai Ryzhkov, leader of the People's Rule deputy group (second left), during signing of treaty on establishing the Russia-Belarus Union. 02.04.1997#70448
Gennady Zyuganov, presidential candidate from Russia's popular-patriotic forces, unveiled his election program during presidium session. From left to right are Alexander Rutskoi, Svetlana Savitskaya, Valentin Chikin, Nikolai Ryzhkov, Gennady Zyuganov and Aman Tuleyev.17.03.1996#22061
Gennady Seleznyov, Speaker of the the State Duma of the Russian Federation, talks with deputy Nikolai Ryzhkov.16.01.1996#5624869
Famous politician Nikolai Ryzhkov, leader of Power to the People bloc [second right], at polling station during State Duma elections.17.12.1995#24767
Nikolai Ryzhkov, Former Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, politician, statesman, leader of the People's Patriotic Movement "Power to the People!", created to participate in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation in December 1995, during a meeting with journalists in Moscow.13.09.1995#8432809
Former chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov (right) and Agrarian union chairman and member of the State-of-Emergency Committee Vasily Starodubtsev at the session of the Peoples of the USSR Congress at the Chekhov Moscow Art theatre (MKhAT).20.09.1993#55014
Nikolai Ryzhkov, former chairman of the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers (Government) (center) in Russian Constitutional Court's conference hall.30.11.1992#89045
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to France Yury Ryzhkov.01.02.1992#8722756
The first election of a president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic on June 12, 1991. Tallying votes.12.06.1991#8199988
The first election of a president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic on June 12, 1991. Tallying votes.12.06.1991#8199451
The first election of a president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic on June 12, 1991. Packing voting ballots before sending them to the Moscow Election Commission for vote counting.12.06.1991#8199448
The first election of a president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic on June 12, 1991. Tallying votes at a polling station in Moscow.12.06.1991#8199447
The first elections of the President of the RSFSR on June 12, 1991. Photo: Delivering ballot bags to an election commission for a subsequent vote count.12.06.1991#8199446
Election campaign ahead of the presidential election in RSFSR. Campaigning on Sovetskaya Square in Moscow (now Tverskaya Square).01.06.1991#8199986
The 4th Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (currently State Kremlin Palace), December 17-27, 1990. Soviet Prime Minsiter Nikolai Ryzhkov makes a speech.17.12.1990#8143392
The 4th Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (currently State Kremlin Palace), December 17-27, 1990. From left: President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev and Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov during a session.17.12.1990#8142741
The 4th Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (currently State Kremlin Palace), December 17-27, 1990. From left: Yegor Ligachev, member of the CSPU central committee's politbureau, and USSR Prime Minsiter Nikolai Ryzhkov are seen here during an intermission.17.12.1990#8141226
Nikolai Ryzhkov, member of the CPSU Central Committee Politburo and chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers.17.11.1990#34376
Right to left, USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev; Anatoly Lukyanov, USSR Supreme Soviet Chairman; and Nikolai Ryzhkov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, on the Lenin Mausoleum rostrum07.11.1990#80906
The visit by a Singaporean delegation to the USSR, September 23-26, 1990. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Ryzhkov, 4th left, and Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, 4th right, during the talks in the Kremlin.24.09.1990#8209763
The 4th Session of Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Grand Kremlin Palace, September 10-17, 1990. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Ryzhkov makes a speech during the discussion of the project for methods to stabilize the economy.10.09.1990#8211090
The fourth session of the USSR Supreme Soviet in the Grand Kremlin Palace on September 10-17, 1990. Chair of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov during the discussion of the transition to market economy.10.09.1990#8207713
The fourth session of the USSR Supreme Soviet in the Grand Kremlin Palace on September 10-17, 1990. Chair of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov discussing transition to market economy.10.09.1990#8207706
Fourth session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in the Grand Kremlin Palace, September 10-17, 1990. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Ryzhkov (center) discussing the program of transition to a market economy.10.09.1990#8220629
Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Government) of the USSR, Nikolai Ryzhkov, center left, holds talks with Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan M. Manchal, fifth right, opposite Ryzhkov.20.08.1990#8343198
From left: Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Government) of the USSR, Nikolai Ryzhkov, meets with Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan M. Manchal before their talks.20.08.1990#8343195
Prime Minister of India Shri Vishawath Pratap Singh is paying an official visit to the Soviet Union. Unveiling a monument to Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore in Moscow's Druzhba (Friendship) Park. The monument was built to a design by sculptor Gautam Pal and architect Yury Konovalov. From left: Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Government) of the USSR, Nikolai Ryzhkov, Prime Minister of India Shri Vishawath Pratap Singh and Vladimir Karpov, a member of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the USSR.24.07.1990#8340345
An official friendly visit of Prime Minister of India Vishwanath Pratap Singh to the USSR. Vishwanath Pratap Singh, right, meets with Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Ryzhkov, left, in the Kremlin.23.07.1990#8340355
Participants lay a wreath to the Lenin Mausoleum on the Red Square, during the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, July 2 - 13, 1990.02.07.1990#3049728
Member of the CPSU CC Politburo and Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov (right) and Secretary General of the CPSU CC, President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev (left).01.07.1990#33343
Member of the CPSU CC Politburo and Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov (left) and Secretary General of the CPSU CC and USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev (right) in the presidium of the 28th CPSU Congress.01.07.1990#33341
Left to right: Chairman of the USSR Supreme Council Anatoly Lukyanov, Deputy Secretary General of the CPSU CC Vladimir Ivashko, and member of the CPSU CC Politburo and Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov in the presidium of the 28th CPSU Congress.01.07.1990#33340
A visit by a British delegation to the USSR. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during her meeting with Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Ryzhkov.08.06.1990#8314454
A British delegation visits the Soviet Union. UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Chair of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov after the signing of cooperation documents.08.06.1990#8314450
