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Gallery Package - RIA Novosti 1991-2006
Photo Archive 1900-1940 | Sovinformbureau 1941-1960 | Novosti Press Agency 1961-1990

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Reflection of The Kremlin. Uspensky Sobor (Cathedral)<br>Moscow, Domes of Churches in the Kremlin<br>Credit: Vladimir Vyatkin / RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Igor Mikhalev<br>In front of the Government House the morning after the Zviad Gamsakhurdia regime overthrow, Tbilisi, Georgia, 1992.<br>Zviad Konstantines dze Gamsakhurdia (Georgian - March 31, 1939 - December 31, 1993) was a dissident, scientist and writer, who became the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Boris Babanov<br>The demolition of the Berlin Wall, 1990.<br>The Wall was destroyed by a euphoric public over several weeks, and its fall was the first step toward German reunification, which was formally concluded on October 3, 1990.<br>The Brandenburg Gate in the background is a former city gate and the symbol of Berlin, Germany. It is located on the Pariser Platz and is the only remaining gate of a series through which one formerly entered Berlin.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Vyatkin<br>Boris Yeltsin after the third voting round and inauguration as Russia's Supreme Soviet Chairman, 1990.<br>Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (born February 1, 1931) was the first President of Russia from June 1991, re-elected in 1996 and resigned on 31 December 1999.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Alexander Makarov<br>Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russia's Prime Minister, in the Cherny Otrog village with his relatives, 1993.<br>Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin (Russia - born April 9, 1938) is a Russian politician.<br>Chernomyrdin was the Prime Minister of Russia from 1992 to 1998 and, since 2001, he has been Russia's ambassador to Ukraine. He is also a Russian business oligarch and a target of numerous jokes for his syntactically extravagant speech<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Sergei Gunyev<br>Mikhail Gorbachev<br>Soviet Communist Party Central Committee Secretary General and U.S.S.R. President during a session break, 1990.<br>Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov (commonly written as Mikhail Gorbachev; born March 2, 1931) was the last leader of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until its collapse in 1991. His attempts at reform helped to end the Cold War, and also ended the political supremacy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and dissolved the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Fedorenko<br>Andrei Sakharov, 1989, Gold medal. INTERPRESSPHOTO 1989.<br>Dr. Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (May 21, 1921- December 14, 1989) was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Fedorenko<br>A public rally in Manezhnaya Square, Moscow, 1992.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Dmitry Korotayev<br>Alexander Solzhenitsyn arrives in Russia after a twenty-year exile, Magadan, May 27, 1994.<br>Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (born December 11, 1918) is a Russian novelist, dramatist and historian. Through his writings, he made the world aware of the Gulag, and, for these efforts, Solzhenitsyn was both awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 and exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974. He returned to Russia in 1994. In 1994, he was elected as a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Department of Language and Literature.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Dmitry Donskoi<br>Russia's President Boris Yeltsin making a public address, Palace Square, St. Petersburg, 1996.<br>Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (born February 1, 1931) was the first President of Russia from June 1991, re-elected in 1996 and resigned on 31 December 1999.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Alexander Lyskin<br>October 3, 1993 in Moscow.<br>The Parliament Building on fire<br>The building housed the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic's Congress of People's Deputies and Supreme Soviet until the crisis of 4 October 1993 when an uprising led to a siege and artillery bombardment on the building that caused a major fire.<br>The renovated White House now houses the Russian government.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Igor Mikhalev<br>In Free Russia Square in front of the Parliament Building, Moscow, October 4, 1993.
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Vladimir Vyatkin<br>Action in Chechnya, 1999.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Vyatkin<br>A federal reconnaissance unit in the Bass River gorge, Chechnya, 1999.<br>Gold medal, World Press Photo, 2002.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Vyatkin<br>A federal reconnaissance unit in Chechnya, 1999.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Alexander Zemlyanichenko<br>Hospital hostage rescue in Budyonnovsk, Stavropol Territory, 1995.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Igor Mikhalev<br>Grozny, Chechen Republic, August 1996.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Igor Mikhalev<br>Grozny, Chechen Republic, August 1996<br>Since 1994, the conflict between Russian federal forces and those claiming to seek independence for this part of Russia has cost thousands of lives and seen the destruction of Grozny, its main city.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Valery Shustov<br>The newly-rebuilt Cathedral of Christ the Saviour reflected in the Moskva River, 1997. Originally completed in the 1880s, the cathedral was demolished in 1931. It was rebuilt during the 1990s, symbolic of the resurgence of the Russian Orthodox Church following the collapse of the USSR.<br>The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is the tallest Eastern Orthodox church in the world.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Igor Mikhalev<br>Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov attending the ceremonial consecration of the Grand Bell to be mounted on the Cathedral of Christ the Savior belfry, 1997.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Oleg Lastochkin<br>Winding staircase at the Vatcan Museum - 1997<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Oleg Lastochkin<br>The Holy Trinity Church, above Kazbegi, Georgia, 1995.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Vyatkin - <br>Hunting in the open sea along the Chukchi Peninsula coast, 1991<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Sergei Guneyev<br>Swimming race, 1998<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Boris Babanov<br>Nigerian Diver, 1990.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Vyatkin<br>The Successors to St. George, Dagestan, 1996.<br>Gold medal, INTERPHOTO, 1998.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Vyatkin<br>On the Tyrrhenian coast, Italy, 1997.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Vyatkin<br>Bodybuilding, 1999<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Igor Mikhalev<br>Special forces in Sahara, survival drill, 1997.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Igor Mikhalev<br>Special forces in Sahara, survival drill, 1997.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Igor Mikhalev<br>This used to be the Aral Sea, Karakalpakia, Uzbekistan, 1994.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Igor Mikhalev<br>The Ghobi Desert, Mongolia, 1995.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Igor Mikhalev<br>Heading for cotton harvesting, Turkmenistan, 1992.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto<br>
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Yury Kaver<br>The Kuril Islands - 1991<br>The Kuril Islands, or Kurile Islands, in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast region, stretch approximately 1,300 km (700 miles) northeast from Hokkaido, Japan, to Kamchatka, Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean. There are 56 islands in total.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Dmitry Korobeinikov<br>The Brilliant Heads exhibition, 2000<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Rodionov<br>Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Bill Clinton of the U.S., Kremlin, 2000.<br>William Jefferson &quotBill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001.<br>Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born October 7, 1952) - President of Russia. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Rodionov<br>Sheikh-ul-Islam Taigat Tajuddin, High Mufti of the Central Muslim Board for Russia and the CIS countries, and Alexy II, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, 2000.<br>His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia is the 15th primate of the Russian Orthodox Church since the patriarchal office was established in Russia in 1589. Patriarch Alexy (secular name Aleksey Mikhailovich Ridiger) was born on 23 February 1929 in Tallinn to a profoundly devout family.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto<br>
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Sergei Pyatakov<br>Mstislav Rostropovich's master class, 2004.<br>Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich (born March 27, 1927), affectionately known as Slava, is a Russian American cellist and conductor, considered to be one of the greatest cellists ever. He is well known for his interpretations and for his commissions of new works which have considerably enriched the cello repertoire. Rostropovich was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union. From 1943 to 1948, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory, where he became professor of cello in 1956.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Dmitry Korobeinikov<br>Valery Gergiev, 2001<br>Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (born in Moscow on 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre. He is also associated with the Metropolitan Opera (principal guest conductor), the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (principal conductor, until 2008), and the London Symphony Orchestra (principal conductor, from 2007).<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Sergei Pyatakov<br>Alexy II, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, in the Holy Trinity Laura of St. Sergius, 2004.<br>Patriarch Alexius II (born February 23, 1929) is the current Patriarch of Moscow and the spiritual leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was born as Alexey Mikhailovich Ridiger in Tallinn, Estonia, to the family of a priest; he is a descendant of the German Baltic nobility clan of von Rüdiger, which adopted Orthodoxy in the 18th century.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto<br>
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Sergei Guneyev<br>Her Majesty Elizabeth II and Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin arriving at Buckingham Palace, 2003.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Sergei Guneyev<br>Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush in the White House, Washington, D.C., 2005.<br>Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born October 7, 1952) is the incumbent President of Russia. He became Acting President of Russia on December 31, 1999, succeeding Boris Yeltsin, and was sworn in as President following the elections on May 7, 2000. In 2004 he was re-elected for a second term (and last under the current Constitution), which expires in 2008.<br>George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current president of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001 and re-inaugurated on January 20, 2005. Bush was first elected in 2000.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Rusian Krivobok<br>Cleaning the territory, 2005<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Vyatkin<br>A Rainy Day, 2003<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Vyatkin<br>Coalminers after shift, Prokopyevsk, 2005.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Vyatkin<br>Coalminers after shift, Prokopyevsk, 2005.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Vyatkin<br>Occupation: Soldier<br>Grand Prix and Public Award<br>Silver Camera 2005<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Ramzan Lagkuyev<br>The Besian school siege, 2004.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Ramzan Lagkuyev<br>The Besian school siege, 2004.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Vyatkin<br>Igor Moiseyev, State Folk Dance Company artistic director<br>Igor Alexandrovich Moiseyev, born Kiev, January 21 (OS January 8) 1906, has been widely acclaimed as the greatest 20th-century choreographer of folk dance. He graduated from the Bolshoi Theatre ballet school in 1924 and danced in the theatre until 1939.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Vyatkin<br>Moscow school-leavers in Red Square, Moscow, 2005.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto<br>
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Sergei Patakov<br>V-Day anniversary fireworks in Red Square, Moscow, 9 May 2005.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Vyatkin<br>&quotLe Sang des Etoiles" at the Ballet Biarritz, France, 2005<br>Literally translated &quotthe blood of stars".<br>Le Sang des étoiles is a witty, moving and humorous ballet albeit with a grim and serious subject.<br>Thierry Malandain linked classical tradition with contemporary spirit in his choreography and has been in charge of Ballet Biarritz since its creation in 1998.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Vyatkin<br>Waterbirds, Gold Medal winner, INTERPRESSPHOTO 2003<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Vyatkin<br>The Parade of Russian Peoples and Lands, 2002.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Dmitry Korobeinikov<br>Newlyweds, 2001.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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Vladimir Vyatkin<br>Spring is in the Air, 2004.<br>Grand Prix and Public Award, Silver Camera 2005.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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