Moscow is famous for being the world’s new nightlife capital. The hottest nights? The best looking girls? The strongest drinks? It’s all here!
It was a very strange day in Moscow, May 6 2012. I came to photograph the opposition “rally of millions” in downtown Moscow. It was happening just a day before Putin’s come back to power and nobody really expected any police violence.
Pussy Riot’s Punk Protesters Get Two Years in Prison for ‘Hooliganism’. August 17, 2012
Izborsk is a large village in the North-West of Russia, some 30 km away from the European border. Founded as a fortified city 1250 years ago, it seems to have stuck in the Middle Ages.
Behind the scenes and the rehearsal of an opera “Ruslan and Lyudmila” at Bolshoi Theater, led by prize-winning director and set designer Dmitry Tcherniakov.
Behind the scenes and the rehearsal of an opera “Don Giovanni” at Bolshoi Theater, led by Greek conductor Teodor Kourentzis and prize-winning director Dmitry Tcherniakov.
Sunday’s demonstration, a day before the inauguration, drew at least 20,000 people. It began peacefully but the situation became chaotic when protesters tried to break through a column of riot police officers. The result was a prolonged confrontation.
On Sunday May 7th, 2012 Vladimir Putin has been inaugurated as president of Russia in a lavish ceremony in the capital of Moscow. This day, thousands of protesters opposed to the inauguration clashed with police in Moscow. The art project by photographer Nikita Shokhov brings Putin wandering in streets of Moscow after being kicked out of the Kremlin.
At last, cinema casts light on the raped women of Bosnia during conflict in ex-Yugoslavia, thanks to the first movie directed by Angelina Jolie « In the land of blood and honey”. It is time to tell about these women: between 20000 and 30000 victims have been raped during the conflict, in the eyes of a helpless European community.
Alexei Kozlov is a prominent Russian businessman, believed by human rights groups to have suffered from a conspiracy to expropriate his property, was jailed again for five years.
Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist punk-rock collective that stages illegal protests in Moscow, on subjects such as the status of women in Russia, and most recently against the election campaign of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for president of Russia.
Protests For Fair Elections hold places last months in Russia. And after the election at March, 4th the certainty surrounding Vladimir Putin’s presidential victory has once again led to widespread allegations that the vote was a fix.
Monette and Mady are identical twins. They have lived their whole life closely together and are, as they say, inseparable.
During the last few months Russia has figuratively become a kind of zoo or jungle full of animals of all kinds. Even Prime minister Vladimir Putin quotes Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” speaking as a python Kaa from the first person.
Commune is an intentional community of people living together, sharing common interests, property, possessions, and, in some communes, work and income. Photographer Semen Katz found most interesting ones in Moscow — eco-commune, commune of journalists, artists, teachers and ect.