Dmitry Kostyukov

A woman goes to church in Iversky Monastery, one of president Putin's favorites, located not far from his holidays recidence outside town Valdai on June 15, 2013.

Old Lenin monument and monuments of two Soviet pioneer are seen between grass near the road from Saint-Petersburg to Moscow not far from village Khotilovo on June 11, 2013.

Truck driver Alexsander repairs his car near Chernie Gryazi (Black Mud) not far from Moscow on June 18, 2013

People wash their clothes in the river outside Vishnii-Volochek on June 11, 2013 just near the road from Saint-Petersburg to Moscow. 

Mariuka Rudel (R) (14 years-old) and Rema Michai (13 years-old) pose before wedding ceremony. Gypsies celebrate wedding in Chudovo: small city of 16,000, just south of Lyuban'. One of the most interesting thing in Chudovo is settlement of gypsies who found here after the nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl. A number of gypsies were accused of fabricating the births of babies this year in order to collect "maternal capital," the payments Putin has introduced to encourage population growth. There was also a major graft case in Chudovo recently involving road construction that broke in April.