Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images.

A Russian man rides a motorcycle in the village of Kriusha, Ryazan region.

See more photos at The Big Picture blog.

Photo by Maya Shelkovnikova.

George Dunenkov, the captain of the Dragon class yacht, during the sailing trip on the Ob sea.

Photo by Lugerovski.

A monument to a drunken plumber near Moscow, as the locals calls it.

Previously at metkere.com: Statue of Liberty from Scrap Metal and Ice Yoda.

Photo by Reuters via The Telegraph.

People covered in mineral-rich black mud prepare to bathe in the salt waters of Tus lake in Khakassia region of Russia.

Photo by EPA via Telegraph.co.uk.

A plane flies in front of the full moon in the night sky over Frankfurt am Main.

Photo by Dmitry Medvedev.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's photograph of the Tobolsk Kremlin (the fortress in a Siberian town of Tobolsk) sold for 51 million rubles ($1.7 million) at a charity auction in St. Petersburg.

Medvedev's photo was snapped up by Mikhail Zingarevich, a board member at Ilim Group, the pulp and paper company where Medvedev was a co-owner at 1990s. Zingarevich said he planned to hang the picture in his office.

Proceeds of the auction will go to buy furniture for World War II veterans receiving long-promised apartments, equipment for a children's hospital and a new kitchen for an alcohol rehabilitation center.

Photo: Alexander Kotomin.

Moscow hosts International festival of snow, ice and light sculpture "Vyugovey 2010".

Photo by Marco Fieber.

The Interra Youth Forum opening. The Opera Theatre, Novosibirsk, Russia.

Photos by Maya Shelkovnikova.

Contemporary Art Exhibition "Look!" opened today in Novosibirsk.

The opening was very exciting: pornographic pictures on the walls were in abundance, the musicians were wonderful, a cultural critic Sergey Samoilenko talked to vice-governor Andrei Filichev, as a modern artist Slava Mizin of the "Blue Noses" group launched fireworks from his own pants.

And this, my friends, is the primary sensation of the evening: Gary Oldman came to the opening of the exhibition in Novosibirsk!

Mr Oldman friendly talked to local residents and even made a commentary for TV. By the way, Robin Williams came to Novosibirsk to watch the total solar eclipse last year.

Photos by Lugerovski.

The replica of the Statue of Liberty was built from scrap metal in Russian city of Yelabuga. Oh, those Russian sculptors.