President of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee Dmitry Chernyshenko before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2360740
Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rjutte before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2360688
Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) Ban Ki-Moon before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2360660
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai (from left to right) before the beginning of the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2360652
Afghan President Hamid Karzai (right) before the beginning of the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2360641
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2360633
Federation Council Chairwoman Valentina Matviyenko (center) before the beginning of the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2360629
Afghan President Hamid Karzai before the beginning of the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2360624
Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, right, before the opening ceremony of the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2360616
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak (right) before the beginning of the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2360605
Prince Albert II of Monaco before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2360595
Member of the IOC Executive Committee Sergei Bubka before the beginning of the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2360583
Afghan Presiden Hamid Karzai before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2360582
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games.07.02.2014#2359918
The US Olympic team before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359868
The Fisht Stadium before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359835
The Fisht Stadium before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359832
Minister of Sport Vitaly Mutko, left, and Soviet ice hockey player and coach Boris Mikhailov before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359823
TV presenter Irina Skvortsova and Soviet ice hockey player and coach Boris Mikhailov before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359809
The Italian Olympic team before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359808
The British Olympic Team before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359805
Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu and coach in figure skating Tatyana Tarasova before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359797
TV presenter Irina Skvortsova and Soviet ice hockey player and coach Boris Mikhailov before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359779
Manager of Presidential Affairs Vladimir Kozhin before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359771
Soviet hockey player and coach Boris Mikhailov, left, TV host Irina Skvortsova, Merited Master of Sports in figure skating and TV host Irina Slutskaya (background, from right), and figure skating coach Tamara Moskvina (foreground right) before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games.07.02.2014#2359770
President of Bosco di Ciliegi Mikhail Kusnirovich, left, before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359769
A view of the Olympic cauldron and the Bolshoy Ice Dome before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359767
Owner and President of Interros Managing Company before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359764
US sports fans before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359750
A view of the Fisht Stadium, left, the Bolshoy Ice Dome, and the Olympic cauldron before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359741
Coach in figure skating Tamara Moskvina, left, and four-time Olympic champion in artistic gymnastics and Editor-in-Chief of Big Sports magazine Alexei Nemov before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359733
A view of the Bolshoy Ice Dome in the Olympic Park before the opening ceremony of of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359732
Spectators at the Fisht Stadium before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359727
TV presenter Irina Skvortsova before the opening ceremony of of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359725
Krasnodar Territory Governor Alexander Tkachyov and coach in figure skating Tatyana Tarasova before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359724
A man at the Olympic cauldron before the opening ceremony of of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359723
President of Interros Managing Company Vladimir Potanin, Manager of Presidential Affairs Vladimir Kozhin, and Plenipotentiary Envoy to the President in the Southern Federal District Vladimir Ustinov, from left to right, before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359719
Member of the CSKA Supervisory Council Vladimir Petrov, coach in figure skating Tatyana Tarasova, and owner and President of Interros managing Company Vladimir Potanin before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359715
Coach in figure skating Tatyana Tarasova, Olympic champon in biathlon Alexander Tikhonov, and widow of first Russian President Boris Yeltsin Naina Yeltsin before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359714
Minister of Sport of the Russian federation Vitaly Mutko before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359712
President of the Russian Figure Skating Federation Alexander Gorshkov, left, before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359710
Figure skating coach Tatyana Tarasova before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games.07.02.2014#2359707
President of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Nikolai Tolstykh before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359700
First Deputy Chairperson of the Russian State Duma Committee on International Affairs, deputy of the United Russia faction Svetlana Zhurova before the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.07.02.2014#2359692
