Backstage in Bolshoi Theatre. Bolshoi dancers are preparing for a regular performance of romantic Coppélia
Balaklava is a small town by the sea in the Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine. During the Soviet era, it was a city that didn’t exist to the outside world. The town closed to the public for more than 30 years due to the submarine base that was situated there.
For the last few years I have been following the punk community in St.Petersburg. One would say that punks look the same everywhere, but in today’s Russia being different in any way takes a lot of courage. Unfortunately, recently St.Petersburg has become a center of this bigotry.
People protest against the court verdict sentencing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to 5 years in jail.
The photographer Olga Kravets started working in Chechnya in 2009 with a collaborative project exploring the aftermath of war in its capital. In 2013 she decided to go beyond the city boundaries and show the whole republic under the ubiquitous power of its authoritarian leader
Cossack military school near Volgograd (nearly 1,000km south-east of Moscow). Some 30 military schools, such as the one in Volgograd, have opened in the country.
The Russian State library was founded in 1862, as Moscow’s first free public library named The Library of the Moscow Public Museum. In 2013 the library celebrates 150 years of history.
In 2012 legislators of St.Petersburg came up with “ahead of the times” historical input — anti-gay legislation, banning any reading, writing, speech or debate on anything “gay”. The law’s content is vague – it criminalizes “public action aimed at propagandizing sodomy, lesbianism, bisexualism, and transgenderism among minors”.
This project, titled BABY BLUES, explores the emotional and conflicted world women experience during motherhood through a process of staging and symbolic representation of truth.
Outspoken skepticism towards the church is no surprise in Russia today. Many true believers abandoned churches. But around 35,000 pilgrimsfrom all over the country participated in the Velikoretsky Procession of the Cross, held annually in the Kirov Oblast, Russia, 2012
New year is the biggest holiday in Russian culture. We often say: “The way you spend New Year’s Eve is the way you will spend the rest of the year”
Due to the economic crisis the real estate peddlers have targeted the region of Cotacachi in Ecuador as a next paradise to develop for who want to retire at a low cost of life and recreate their american-style life there.
Sergei Udaltsov, a 35-year-old radical leftwinger who has helped spearhead the mass protests that have rocked Moscow since late last year, is being investigated for provoking mass unrest around Russia, said Russia’s investigative committee.
The first series of the project “The Invisible” focuses on using infrared films ability to photograph on the higher end of the visual spectrum in an attempt to photograph ghosts in the most haunted village in England.
Empty Hills (Pustye Kholmi) or the Russian Woodstock, largest open-air non-commercial festival of alternative music and arts, which is held annually in summer in Kaluga region.