OMON, riot police officers detaining banned National-Bolshevik Party leader Eduard Limonov, left, and another participant, no name given, during an unsanctioned protest against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at Triumfalnaya (Triumph) Square in downtown Moscow, Russia, Sunday, May 31, 2009. Russian Police detained prominent Kremlin critic Limonov and several other people who tried to hold the protest on Sunday. City authorities had refused to grant opposition groups permission for the demonstration, but Limonov's group and others said they would go ahead with it anyway. AP Photo logo AP Photo 8 months ago

OMON, riot police officers detaining banned National-Bolshevik Party leader Eduard Limonov, left, and another participant, no name given, during an unsanctioned protest against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at Triumfalnaya (Triumph) Square in downtown Moscow, Russia, Sunday, May 31, 2009. Russian Police detained prominent Kremlin critic Limonov and several other people who tried to hold the protest on Sunday. City authorities had refused to grant opposition groups permission for the demonstration, but Limonov's group and others said they would go ahead with it anyway.

More Photos of russia putin

View as Grid »

  1. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, seen during a meeting with Interior Ministry troops in Ufa, the capital of the Russia's Volga River region of Bashkortostan,750 miles (1,200 kilometers) east of Moscow on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010.
  2. Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L, in the foreground) greets servicemen, whose colleagues were killed in Chechnya last week, at a military unit in the city of Ufa in the southern Ural Mountains February 8, 2010. At least six insurgents and five Russian troops have been killed in gun battles in Chechnya, authorities in the Russian province said last Friday.
  3. Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev (R), accompanied by Sofya Trotsenko - chief of the project, visits the annual Russian photographic exhibition "The best photos of Russia - 2009", with a photo of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the foreground, in Moscow February 8, 2010.
  4. President Dmitry Medvedev visits the annual a photographic exhibition 'The best photos of Russia - 2009' in Moscow, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010, with the chief of the project Sofya Trotsenko in the background. A photo of former Russia's President, current Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin seen at left.
  5. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gestures during a meeting with leaders of the dominant United Russia political party in Moscow February 5, 2010.
  6. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, and Chief of Russia's Nanotechnology Agency Anatoly Chubais speak during their meeting in Moscow, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010.
  7. Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) meets with Head of Russia's Nanotechnology Agency Anatoly Chubais in Moscow February 4, 2010.
  8. Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk (L) chats with Poland's President Lech Kaczynski during a ceremony in Auschwitz Birkenau January 27, 2010. Poland's President Kaczynski said on Thursday he planned to attend a commemoration in April of the wartime massacre of 20,000 Polish officers by Soviet forces even though Moscow has not invited him. On Wednesday Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin invited his Polish counterpart, Tusk, to join him at the site of the 1940 massacre, the Katyn forest in western Russia, in a sign of improving relations between Warsaw and Moscow. Picture taken January 27, 2010.
  9. Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk (L) chats with Poland's President Lech Kaczynski during a ceremony in Auschwitz Birkenau January 27, 2010. Poland's President Kaczynski said on Thursday he planned to attend a commemoration in April of the wartime massacre of 20,000 Polish officers by Soviet forces even though Moscow has not invited him. On Wednesday Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin invited his Polish counterpart, Tusk, to join him at the site of the 1940 massacre, the Katyn forest in western Russia, in a sign of improving relations between Warsaw and Moscow. Picture taken January 27, 2010.
  10. Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chairs his cabinet's presidium meeting in Moscow February 4, 2010.
  11. Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chairs his cabinet's presidium meeting in Moscow February 4, 2010.
  12. Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (C) chairs a meeting, dedicated to the control of foreign investments in the Russian Federation, in Moscow February 3, 2010. Putin's party on Wednesday threatened to sack Russia's top senator for publicly criticising the former Kremlin chief over his handling of the economic crisis.
  13. Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting, dedicated to the control of foreign investments in the Russian Federation, in Moscow February 3, 2010. Putin's party on Wednesday threatened to sack Russia's top senator for publicly criticising the former Kremlin chief over his handling of the economic crisis.
  14. Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin enters a hall to attend a meeting, dedicated to the control of foreign investments in the Russian Federation, in Moscow February 3, 2010. Putin's party on Wednesday threatened to sack Russia's top senator for publicly criticising the former Kremlin chief over his handling of the economic crisis.
  15. Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) meets with creative director of the Mariinsky Theatre Valery Gergiev in Moscow February 3, 2010.
  16. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin seen during a meeting on investment at the Kremlin in Moscow on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday urged the government to come up with a plan to make the energy-dependent country more attractive for foreign investors, Russia news agencies reported.

Explore Photos of Related Topics

  1. Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (C) chairs a meeting, dedicated to the control of foreign investments in the Russian Federation, in Moscow February 3, 2010. Putin's party on Wednesday threatened to sack Russia's top senator for publicly criticising the former Kremlin chief over his handling of the economic crisis.
  2. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin seen during a meeting on investment at the Kremlin in Moscow on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday urged the government to come up with a plan to make the energy-dependent country more attractive for foreign investors, Russia news agencies reported.
  3. Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) greets Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill as they meet in Moscow February 1, 2010. Russian Orthodox believers celebrate the 1st anniversary of Patriarch Kirill's enthronement. Picture taken February 1, 2010.
  4. Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) meets with Vladimir Grodetsky, CEO of Izhevsk machine-building plant, at his Novo-Ogoryovo residence outside Moscow January 30, 2010. Libya has signed an arms deal with Russia worth 1.3 billion euros (1.1 billion pound), Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying on Saturday.
  5. Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (C) meets with Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar (L) and Alexander Boroda, President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, January 26, 2010.
  6. Chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Russia Alexander Boroda, right, and chief Rabbi Berl Lazar, left, speak to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, center, Moscow, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010.
  7. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin seen meeting with students at a university in the regional capital Cheboksary, some 680 km 425 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 25. 2010.
  8. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, seen visiting a university in the regional capital Cheboksary, some 680 km 425 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 25. 2010.
  9. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, is offered some cookies while visiting a university in the regional capital Cheboksary, some 680 km 425 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 25. 2010.
  10. Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) meets with students as he visits the Chuvash State University in the city of Cheboksary, about 650 km (404 miles) south-east of Moscow January 25, 2010.
  11. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, center, chairs a meeting with officials in Pyatigorsk, southern Russia, some 1300 km (813 miles) south of Moscow, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010. Putin on Saturday ordered officials in the North Caucasus to ensure what he called the "normal work" of human rights groups operating in the volatile region.
  12. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, chairs a meeting with officials in Pyatigorsk, southern Russia, some 1300 km (813 miles) south of Moscow, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010. Putin on Saturday ordered officials in the North Caucasus to ensure what he called the "normal work" of human rights groups operating in the volatile region.
  13. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Presidential Representative in the Northern Caucasus Federal District Alexander Khloponin on his arrival in Pyatigorsk, southern Russia, some 1300 km (813 miles) south of Moscow, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010.
  14. FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2009 file photo, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, and gas monopoly Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, left, seen during a visit to Gazprom's main control room in Moscow, Russia. Russia's oil-dependent economy is getting back on track after its biggest downturn in a decade as higher crude prices and new inflows of capital have shored up the country's banks, government finances and stock markets.
  15. MOSCOW, RUSSIA - JANUARY 22: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) and President Dmitry Medvedev take part in a State Council session discussing political system issues at the Kremlin on January 22, 2010 in Moscow, Russia. Leaders of all Russia's registered parties gathered to discuss their political system and the recent presidential elections in the Ukraine.
  16. MOSCOW, RUSSIA - JANUARY 22: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) and President Dmitry Medvedev take part in a State Council session discussing political system issues at the Kremlin on January 22, 2010 in Moscow, Russia. Leaders of all Russia's registered parties gathered to discuss their political system and the recent presidential elections in the Ukraine.

Recent Photos From The Wire

  1. Volkswagen AG's CEO Martin Winterkorn smiles during a general workers meeting at the company's headquarters in Wolfsburg February 10, 2010.
  2. A worker stands near furnaces at a steel plant of the Arab Iron and Steel Corp (AISCO) at Yemen's Aden Free Zone in this February 6, 2010 picture. AISCO has announced plans for a massive expansion to increase steel output to 1.5 million tonnes at a cost of $1.6 billion. Picture taken February 6, 2010. To match interview YEMEN-STEEL.
  3. Christian Wulff, premier of Lower Saxony and member of the supervisory board of Volkswagen AG, speaks during a general workers meeting at the company's headquarters in Wolfsburg February 10, 2010.
  4. LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 10: Kimberley Walsh attends photocall to promote The Sony Ericsson and Orange BAFTA show which she will present on MTV at The Dorchester on February 10, 2010 in London, England.
  5. JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA, SPAIN - FEBRUARY 10: Vitantonio Liuzzi of Italy and Force India drives during winter testing at the at the Circuito De Jerez on February 10, 2010 in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain.
  6. India's Vangipurappu Laxman (L) exercises with the help of a support staff during a cricket practice session ahead of their second and final test cricket match against South Africa, in Nagpur February 10, 2010. The second test match starts in Kolkata on Sunday.
  7. Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni bats during a practice session ahead of the second test cricket match against South Africa, in Nagpur, India, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. The first test concluded Tuesday with India losing to South Africa by an innings and six runs.
  8. Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni rubs a ball on the ground during a practice session ahead of the second test cricket match against South Africa, in Nagpur, India, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. The first test concluded Tuesday with India losing to South Africa by an innings and six runs.
  9. JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA, SPAIN - FEBRUARY 10: Red Bull Racing Team Principal Christian Horner answers questions at a press conference during winter testing at the at the Circuito De Jerez on February 10, 2010 in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain.
  10. LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 10: Kimberley Walsh attends photocall to promote The Sony Ericsson and Orange BAFTA show which she will present on MTV at The Dorchester on February 10, 2010 in London, England.
  11. LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 10: Kimberley Walsh attends photocall to promote The Sony Ericsson and Orange BAFTA show which she will present on MTV at The Dorchester on February 10, 2010 in London, England.
  12. LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 10: Kimberley Walsh attends photocall to promote The Sony Ericsson and Orange BAFTA show which she will present on MTV at The Dorchester on February 10, 2010 in London, England.
  13. Palestinian woman walks at the site where the Israeli carried out an airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. The Israeli army says it has carried out airstrikes on a number of sites in the southern Gaza Strip in response to militant rocket fire on Israel in recent days. Palestinian medical officials reported no injuries or deaths.
  14. A Palestinian man examines a damaged building, following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. The Israeli army says it has carried out airstrikes on a number of sites in the southern Gaza Strip in response to militant rocket fire on Israel in recent days. Palestinian medical officials reported no injuries or deaths.
  15. North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun, second from right, talks to U.N. senior envoy B. Lynn Pascoe, unseen, during a meeting at Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. Others are unidentified.
  16. U.N. senior envoy B. Lynn Pascoe, left, attends a meeting with North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun, unseen, at Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. At right is unidentified.