A biker group, drinking beer and riding through underground tunnels on their motorcycles late at night. This was a sign of the loosening of state control on people's lives in the early 1990s. This kin...

A Moscow militia (police) car speeds past the domes of St Basil's Cathedral at night.

Armoured personnel carriers move into central Moscow in August 1991 during the attempted coup by hardline communists opposed to Gorbachev's reform policies. The coup would fall part some days later wh...

A full moon shines down on the Kremlin and a Soviet flag hangs limply above it in the last year of the Soviet Union's existence.

Priests take part in a Russian Orthodox procession.

Green light, a signal for migrants who need help, at the house of Maria Ancipiuk in Michalowo. The town is situated near the state of emergency zone by the Belarussian border. Hundreds of migrants, ma...

Police checkpoint near the state of emergency zone by the Belarussian border. Hundreds of migrants, mainly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are stuck on both sides of this border.

Green light, a signal for migrants who need help, at the house of Maria Ancipiuk in Michalowo. The town is situated near the state of emergency zone by the Belarussian border. Hundreds of migrants, ma...

Police checkpoint near the state of emergency zone by the Belarussian border. Hundreds of migrants, mainly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are stuck on both sides of this border.

Police checkpoint near the state of emergency zone by the Belarussian border. Hundreds of migrants, mainly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are stuck on both sides of this border.

Cross and Virgin Mary statue by one of the houses in Michalowo. The town is situated near the state of emergency zone by the Belarussian border. Hundreds of migrants, mainly from Syria, Iraq and Afgha...

Kader (39) from Homs, Syria, is being cared for by nurses. He and his brother Loas (41) were found almost unconscious by Polish NGO Ocalenie Foundation (Salvation Foundation). Brothers crossed the bor...

A Polish NGO, the Ocalenie Foundation (Salvation Foundation) rescued two Syrian brothers who crossed the border from Belarus and made it some 40 kilometres into Polish territory. Loas (41 - in an ambu...

Forest near the state of emergency zone by the Belarussian border. Hundreds of migrants, mainly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are stuck on both sides of this border.

Forest near the state of emergency zone by the Belarussian border. Hundreds of migrants, mainly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are stuck on both sides of this border.