RUSSIA. Ingushetia. Chechen refugees living in neighbouring Ingushetia. (Train carriers, tent camps, cattle farms). December 11th, 1999. By Thomas Dworzak.
Children look at the moon as they gather in the settlement of Poschupovo in Ryazan region, Russia, by Maxim Shemetov.
Members of the Walrus Club swim even in sub-zero temperatures, before warming up again in saunas heated by steam from the local power plant. Norilsk, in northern Russia, is (after Murmansk) the second-largest city within the Arctic Circle, Elena Chernyshova.
Hydrologist Valeri Ivanov, embraces an arctic bath on Siberia’s Putorana Plate au. Russia, Randy Olson.
Altai Territory, Russia 2000. Villagers collecting scrap from a crashed spacecraft, surrounded by thousands of white butterflies. Environmentalists fear for the region’s future due to the toxic rocket fuel, Jonas Bendiksen.
ALDAN, RUSSIA: Alexander Ovchinikov, an 18-year-old ‘srochniki’ starting his 2-year compulsory national service, bids a tearful farewell to family and friends on November 1, 2004 in his hometown of Aldan, in Eastern Siberia, Russia. The train will take ‘Sasha’ to an army barracks three days journey away in Khabarovsk.
Photo by 2006 Getty Images Editorial Grant winner Simon Roberts. Roberts’s project, The Russian Army, explores the intertwined relationship between military and daily life in Russian society.
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A young Nentsy boy stands in the sub-zero Arctic cold near his home, Siberian Arctic, Russia, Steve Raymer.
The Rainbow Coffee is a collaboration between LLH (The Norwegian LGBT Organisation), coffee roaster Solberg & Hansen and Anti in support of LLH´s Principle 6 campaign. The campaign is launched in connection with the winter olympics in Russia and aims to raise awareness of the injustice and discrimination the gay community face in Russia. The campaign is based on Principle 6 of the Olympic Charter: “Any Form of Discrimination is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic Movement”. Ever since the Russian Duma in June 2013 passed Paragraph 6, which bans all homosexual propaganda towards childen under 18, life for gay people in Russia has become increasingly difficult. Rainbow Coffee is an expression of our support in the battle for equality and respect, regardless of sexual orientation or gender.
A rights activist (left) is set upon by against an antigay protester during a gay-pride event in St. Petersburg. Russia’s “gay propaganda” law has been blamed for unleashing a wave of homophobia across the country. 29 gay teachers – as well as heterosexual teachers who openly support LGBT rights – have either been fired, pressured, or forced to resign since the “gay propaganda” law came into force.